Pain: Principles, Practice and PatientsProviding an introduction for nurses to pain and its management, this third edition has been extended to address the science and physiology of pain, and presents recent research evidence, including psychological and cultural factors in the pain experience. New material covers the assessment and management of acute and chronic pain, and discusses the experiences of patients who have suffered pain. |
Contents
Towards an understanding of pain | 11 |
Psychological and cultural factors in the pain experience | 26 |
Beliefs responsibility educational issues and communication | 39 |
Assessing pain | 52 |
The cholecystectomy in bed 21 67 | 68 |
an update Jackie Bentley | 76 |
Pain therapies | 84 |
Feelings about pain and sympathetic listening | 108 |
Glossary | 122 |
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