Pain: Principles, Practice and Patients

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Nelson Thornes, 1998 - 130 páginas
Providing 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.
 

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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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