Pain management

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This dissertation is an opportunity for me to extend my regards to my research supervisor, my beloved friends, and my family for their untiring support that they furnished throughout my research. I am grateful to them for their belief in me and the guidance that they provided me without which I would have never been able to work on and complete this research. It also signifies my own views and does not closely relate to the university.

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DECLARATION

I, (Your name), would like to declare that all contents included in this study stand for my individual work without any aid, and this proposal has not been submitted for any examination at academic as well as professional level, previously. It is also represents my very own views and not essentially those that are associated with other university.

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Abstract

The pain is the most common experience a patient suffers. The pain management is an essential factor for the care of patients. This paper aims to review a majority of the evidences regarding to the assessment of pain tools for the patients and to establish if the use of a tool can be recommended into nursing practice. The suitable pain management has long been a problematic area of the nursing practice and research. Therefore, this study will take the systematic approach in which there will be a wide range of relevant literature which relates to the matter of subjects such as Google scholar, journals, books, Science direct, ProQuest, CINAHL, PubMed, and Embase. The collected data will be analysed and compared. The assessment aims to assist the cause of pain, impact of the life quality, the effectiveness, and treatment. The pain sensation is extremely difficult to define. The most common definition describes the pain to be an unpleasant emotional and sensory experience linked with the potential and actual damage of the tissue and describing it in terms of the damage. It is essential that the pain needs to be managed. For humanitarian reasons the pain has to be managed so as to prevent the complications and improve the recovery. The appetite, mobility, sleep, mood of the patients shall be affected by pain. It can therefore, have devastating effects i.e. the patients are not able to mobilize due to pain, they are not able to eat a nutritious diet, they are at a risk of pressure ulcers, and it can therefore affect wound healing. The implementation of VAS along with NRS shall be recommended in the hospitals and they might improve the pain management among the patients of all age groups by offering consistent and systemic approach for the assessment of pain for guiding interventions. In assessing the pain the VRS may also prove to be beneficial for assessing pain but initially the validation are needed. Additional studies are needed into the pain assessment effects for the pain assessment tools on the patient outcomes and pain management practices.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSi

DECLARATIONii

Abstractiii

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION1

Purpose of the Study1

Background of the Study2

Problem Statement3

My clinical area4

Significance of the ...