PAIN ASSESSMENT

Pain Assessment and Communication

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Pain Assessment and Communication

Introduction

The most important step in good quality of pain care is excellent and suitable pain assessment. A good pain assessment and its diagnosis is a key of success towards good quality pain management. This is the major responsibility of healthcare professionals and nurses to provide the maximum patient care with their appropriate skills and knowledge of pain, which can be beneficial for pain assessment and its management. The best approach towards pain assessment is to provide preventive measures to patients against pain and thus, it is not appreciated from patients by experiencing harmful suffering of pain due to the inadequate expertise and knowledge of healthcare professionals regarding to pain assessment and its management. Pain is considered as fifth crucial symbol and many healthcare organisations are facilitating their accountability in terms of pain assessment and management. Pain assessment is a cornerstone of effective pain management and thus, a methodical approach for assessing pain, measuring and reassessing provides maximum chances to healthcare professional in order to achieve effective pain management because it offers numerous outcomes which includes reduction in pain experience, increment in comfort, enhancing physiological, psychological and physical activities, and improved the satisfactory levels by an effective pain management. On the other hand, assessment of pain is not so simple, for that reason; there is a strong need that nurses and physicians must be aware of all the factors which are responsible for pain. However, more challenges of pain assessment are associated with cognitively impaired individuals of older ages. Therefore, they require different analgesic trails for pain assessment along with good communication skills which are required by physicians and nurses. In order to assess pain, a holistic pain assessment technique must be used, which involves the identification of pain through understanding all the elements which are responsible for it and analysing all the available resources in order to deal with it. In this regard, psychosocial and practical approaches are used in pain assessment in order to provide help to patients as coping strategies against pain (Dunn, 2000, pp. 791-793).

Discussion

Pain Assessment

Pain assessment and is the overall responsibility of healthcare professional and they can provide its management through analysing physical, mental, societal and sacred characteristics of pain. First of all, in order to understand pain assessment the definition of pain should be considered which is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as “unlikeable experience of sensory and emotional feeling, which is primarily associated with damaged tissues and other damages of such types”. Many healthcare organisations are now established practices by including pain assessment tools and are necessary documentations along with the charts of temperature, pulse rate, and blood pressure of patients, which are maintained by healthcare nurses. Although, pain has many classifications but it is generally categorised in three types which are; acute pain which is related to any injury and its durations is up to six months and sometimes less than one ...