A Descriptive Study of Pain In Women Seeking Care for Chest Pain In An Acute Setting
The purpose of this study was to seek understanding of female patient's experience for their chest pain. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Navneet Strickland Source Type: research
Factors Affecting Pain Management Self-Advocacy in Women Aged 65 and Older with Breast Cancer
Explore the experiences and factors influencing pain management among women aged 65 and older who reported moderate to severe pain within the first year after breast cancer surgery. Aim 2: Describe associations among self-reported: 1) levels of self-advocacy; 2) patient-centeredness of communications with healthcare providers; 3) stigma regarding opioid use and addiction; and 4) pain intensity within a cohort of women with breast cancer aged 65 and older. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Karen Alsbrook Source Type: research
Management of Medication Overuse Headaches
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Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Michele Brown Source Type: research
Introduction to Nurse Delivered Massage (NDM) Pre Conference Workshop
The intention of this workshop is for participants to gain understanding of and hands on experience in the delivery of a 30 to 120 sec hand and foot massage for integration into clinical practice, benefitting recipient and provider, in a post minimum contact era.The goal is for participants in any setting to feel confident, comfortable and able to recognize opportunities for integrating NDM into interactions with pain management patients of any age safely. Achievement of this take place using the following:METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Describe history of massage in nursing, nursing presence, pandemic effect on touchReview Opport...
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Karen Pike Source Type: research
Drivers of Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Use in Children
To evaluate the implications of cuing PCA medication availability and better understand children's decision-making process surrounding PCA use. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Michelle Czarnecki Source Type: research
Project Echo: The Model to Move Information not People. The Minnesota Experience with an Opioid and Addiction ECHO
This presentation will decribe the ECHO model and the impact it has had on Minnesota communities, improving the care of patients on opioids and other controlled substances, as well as improving access for patients suffering from the disease of addiction throughout our state. This presentation will also highlight how ECHO can help providers get up to date information, build a network, and get free CME. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Kurt DeVine Source Type: research
A Shared Journey: Effective communication tools to successfully navigate the patient-provider relationship
The connections that healthcare providers build through meaningful communication with patients is critical to providing compassionate, safe, and effective pain care. Because pain cannot be measured objectively, successful communication allows for a shared understanding of the lived experience of persistent pain. By validating a patient's experience of pain through empathetic listening, a therapeutic alliance can be built that helps patients feel empowered to cope. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Molly McNaughton Source Type: research
How to manage when the pain you're treating is your own: Thriving as a nurse in 2023
Being a nurse in the current climate is not dissimilar to being a patient in chronic pain, living in a damaged system with management as our treatment option. With the high prevalence of secondary trauma in nursing and the suicide rate in female nurses twice that of females in the general population, addressing this nursing risk is imperative. The alternative of not treating ourselves is unacceptable, the future of healthcare relies on it. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Filoramo Source Type: research
Beyond pain scores: A CNS-led practice change for a holistic approach to pain management
The purpose of this project was to implement a framework for holistic patient assessment prior to administration of PRN analgesics. The goal was to introduce an order set that integrates a multimodal, tiered-approach to optimize safety and individualize patients ’ pain management. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Marilyn Bazinski Source Type: research
Addressing Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain among Health Disparity Populations: A Randomized Controlled Trial
To help address chronic musculoskeletal pain among health disparity populations (HDPs), we evaluated an Auricular Point Acupressure (APA) intervention leveraging technology. Specifically, we piloted our 1-month intervention and assessed our ability to recruit, randomize participants into 3 arms, and retain them throughout the study with a three-month follow-up. We also assessed participant adherence, acceptability, and satisfaction to our intervention. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Jennifer Kawi Source Type: research
A Chronic Pain Management Nurse Practitioner Brings Her Skills to Community Clinics
Does the presence of pain management providers within community clinics result in better outcomes for patients and less burden on providers who are not specialized in pain management? (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Amy Croushore Source Type: research
Improved Patient & Staff Experience: Benefits of a Poke and Comfort Plan for Needle Procedures
Creating a poke and comfort plan is beneficial to patients who are undergoing needlestick procedures. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Sandra Merkel Source Type: research
Effects of Healing Touch (HT) on Postoperative Pain, Anxiety and sleep in Adults
The primary aim of this study was to identify if there was a difference in post-surgical patients' pain or anxiety scores and sleeping after experiencing (HT).Was there a change in medication usage pre-HT and post-HT? (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Gregory Falvey Source Type: research
Community Based Intervention to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths - A Call for Nurse Advocacy
This presentation focuses on community based interventions and nurse actions and advocacy which have the potential to reduce and eliminate opioid abuse and opioid overdose steps. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: John Sullivan Source Type: research
Therapeutic Touch: A Brief Intervention for Stress Reduction in Healthcare Workers
Therapeutic Touch (TT) as a complementary method was introduced to patients at our 750-bed community hospital in 2014. It wasn't long before staff members began requesting TT practitioners' help with aches, pains and general stress of the workday. In late 2019, in recognition of the highly stressful nature of the healthcare workplace, we began offering TT sessions to hospital units and departments. Managers would choose a day and time and provide a quiet space where TT sessions would be offered over a 1 1/2 - 2 hour time period for their staff. (Source: Pain Management Nursing)
Source: Pain Management Nursing - April 1, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Kathleen Barnett Source Type: research
