Essays Tagged: "Pain management"
Therapeutic Touch, its effectiveness on surgical incision site pain
Therapeutic touch has been shown to decrease patients anxiety levels and increase their pain tolerance levels when other more mainstream therapies have not been completely effective. 'Ther ... 90). In my capacity as a nursing student on a medical- surgical unit, I have noticed an increase in pain medication requests among patients with incision site pain and a minimal use of alternative the ... requests among patients with incision site pain and a minimal use of alternative therapies for this pain management. With the use of therapeutic touch nurses can regain a closeness with patients and a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Euthanaisa, one of the most acute and uncomfortable contemporary problems in medical ethics
rson die. This principle of mercy establishes two component duties:1. the duty not to cause further pain or suffering; and2. the duty to act to end pain or suffering already occurring.Under the first ... t the treatment offers the patient no overriding benefits. The physician must refrain from ordering painful tests, therapies, or surgical procedures when they cannot alleviate suffering or contribute ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
The joys of having children
seems to be more reasons not to have children than there are to have them. Reasons can go from the pain that is experience to the possibility of losing a child. There is no way of knowing what life w ... he reasons that women choose not to have a child is the horror stories that they are told about the pain that comes with childbirth. The thought of pushing a grapefruit through a pinhole can scare awa ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
The Answer...
I looked for youPain was not meant to be.Was it for revenge?I would do anything for youIf I was ever asked..~o~Me le ... did you do the things you do?Did you not do something to hurt me too?The question was...Reoccurring painWhy did you look for me?Is it that the pain you caused.Is not enough?I would do anything thenIf ... ust ask~o~When I needed you.You went way.Leaving me to suffer alone.Now when I'm contented.With the painful memories behind~o~You bring a knife.Cutting into my heart again.I still bleed from the wound ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories
How It Feels (Free Verse Poem)
stance nor Time.I am completely helpless.It is difficult not toWrithe, while in the gripOf ecstatic painAnd agony.I am completely alone.No one knows the wayI feel. The wayI am at a lossFor words.I am ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Analysis of Pain Using Conceptual Models by Keena Rossyion
Pain is a significant national health problem which is the most common reason people seek out medica ... ational health problem which is the most common reason people seek out medical care. Poorly treated pain is a major concern for the million of Americans currently suffering with pain. Pain management ... g with pain. Pain management has become the focus of several regulatory organizations. The American Pain Society created the phrase "Pain, the Fifth Vital Sign," and promoted the need for increased aw ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Identify a patient from your clinical area who is suffering from cancer and his actual and potential problems - Choose and elaborate on one of these problems
ience Panel, 2002). This same panel stated that the most common side effects of cancer are fatigue, pain and depression. The panel in the Conference Statement concluded that currently from the evidenc ... resented at Wonderland a month ago because of hyperthermia and severe back and bilateral lower limb pain. Apart from the pain and fever there were no other clinical findings. Blood tests revealed myel ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
The Lady Or The Tiger (Summary)
as it lept. The youth knew what had happened. He knew her decision. He knew the answer. He felt no pain as the beast ripped it's claws upon his back, he felt no pain as it tore into his flesh a secon ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Meperidine
Meperidine Meperidine is a synthetic narcotic analgesic drug, also known as a painkiller. It is a synthetic analgesic unrelated to morphine, but similar in effect. It can be very ... peridine can be used in early stages or the second phase of labor. It may be injected to lessen the pain of contractions. In addition it relieves severe pain after major operations and occasionally fo ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Love In Pain
Love Is PainWhen something goes away everything around you doesn't matter anymore. You don't care about anyt ... ant to cry. You think : "Here came the day that you have expected to come, the day of suffering, of pain and tears had come." And it seems that life ends for you in this very day. He is away and you d ... t to think about you anymore, it hurts more and more that way. I'll suffer and cry, but one day the pain will leave. I'm not sure I'll be the same person. Love broke my life again. I will write just o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
The value of therapeutic hypnosis
it can have in such areas as personal and sports enhancement, memory retrieval, and health care and pain management. By examining hypnosis through a communication construct, we are better able to see ... he hypnotist at achieving the trance state if they were using it as a means of reducing significant pain. On the other hand, if it were a staged hypnosis they might not be as receptive to the hypnotis ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Ketorolac Versus Opioids For Renal Colic
OR RENAL COLICKetorolac Versus Opioids For Renal ColicMagdalena SwiderskaUIC CONNUSC 527IntroductionPain has been reported as the most common complaint of patients presenting to the emergency departme ... ients presenting to the emergency department (ED) (Karwowski et al., 2006). Studies have shown that pain is often insufficiently relieved, despite availability of numerous analgesic agents (Tanabe &am ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Efficacy of Articaine: A New Amide Local Anesthetic
48; The authors sought to prove that articaine is as effective or more effective at managing dental pain and performing for long procedures, while maintaining the patients safety. The focus of the stu ... cedures, while maintaining the patients safety. The focus of the study was to find more options for pain control in dentistry. According to the study, Articaine is differentiated from other amides in ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Does Marijuana have Medicinal Purposes
rescribed for patients that have a variety of illnesses that marijuana has been proven to help with pain management. Although marijuana has not been legalized for personal use, it has been legalized i ... egalized in those states for medicinal use. Research has found that the use of marijuana helps with pain management for cancer patients and a variety of other illnesses.Research has been done involvin ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Pain Assessment Week 2
Running Head: Week 2Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessmen ... Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative PainIntroductionIndeed, the experience of pain can go beyond the physiological sense of the situatio ... diagnostic tests can not reveal any pathology. Turk and Okifuji (1999) argue that the experience of pain affects the emotional, social, family, professional and physical activity. In addition to pain ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Pain Assessment Week 3
Running Head: Week 3Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessmen ... Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative PainIntroductionMost of pains are usually adopted methods can be regarded as an assessment scale, in ... ver a 24-hour period. Its reliability was established by administering repeated his patients with a painful health condition such as angina, and then studying the trajectory of pain from time-intensit ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Pain Assessment Week 5
Running Head: Week 5Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] Pain Assessment Tool f ... ool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative PainIntroductionA study by Scott and Huskisson (1976) (N = 100) found no significant differences bet ... f how the VAS is designed, can lead to, the measures were more objective picture of the severity of pain. Respondents were simply asked to indicate what level of pain they experienced at anchor betwee ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain-week 5
Running Head: Week 5Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] Pain Assessment Tool f ... ool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative PainIntroductionA study by Scott and Huskisson (1976) (N = 100) found no significant differences bet ... f how the VAS is designed, can lead to, the measures were more objective picture of the severity of pain. Respondents were simply asked to indicate what level of pain they experienced at anchor betwee ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain-week 7
Running Head: Week 7Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessmen ... Postoperative Pain[Writer Name][Institute Name] �Pain Assessment Tool for Postoperative PainIntroductionThis is based on the measurement of the six pain-related variables: pain, anxiety, v ... he measurement of the six pain-related variables: pain, anxiety, verbal statements on the degree of pain, skeletal muscle response, respiration and the amount of sweat. Although the authors claim that ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Review the evidence that suggests the combination of an NSAID and paracetamol provide better pain relief than single therapy
gesics Review the evidence that suggests the combination of an NSAID and paracetamol provide better pain relief than single therapyScopeIn this review essay, we will firstly explore the some backgroun ... peIn this review essay, we will firstly explore the some background information on the sensation of pain in the human body, followed by looking at the different types of analgesics available for drug ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology