Research Catalog

Title

Pain : management and nursing care / [edited by] Dawn Carroll, David Bowsher.

Publication

Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

• Bowsher, David.
• Carroll, Dawn, 1958-

Description

258 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

• Adopting a nursing approach, it offers a unique opportunity to learn about the major principles of pain management, what interventions are available and how and when to apply them safely. The text is presented under the three umbrella headings of 'acute', 'chronic' and 'cancer' pain and is well supported with appropriate references. It will enable nurses working in a wide range of clinical situations to develop their knowledge and skills in effective pain relief from sound guidelines.
• Contributors to the book include nurses with vast clinical and research experience in specific areas of pain management. All have made a major contribution to nurse education. They recognise the important role that the nurse has to play in the management of pain as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and also the need for research in this exciting, fast developing field.
• Nurses working in clinical settings require a broadly based knowledge of pain management. This book provides a much needed, immediate source of essential and relevant information which can be used for the direct benefit of patients.

Subjects

• Pain
• Pain > physiopathology
• Intractable pain
• Analgesia
• Pain Management
• Nursing
• Palliative Care

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Dawn Carroll -- 2. Pain management in nursing / David Bowsher -- 3. Pain assessment / Dawn Carroll -- 4. Pain in the nursing curriculum / Kate Seers and Peter Davis -- 5. Acute pain / Debbie Hunter -- 6. Chronic pain / Jane Latham -- 7. The cognitive behavioural treatment of chronic pain / Judith Ralphs -- 8. Care of the dying / Christine Pearce -- 9. Pain in the elderly / Jan Walker -- 10. Paediatric pain / Pat McGrath, Judith Ritchie and Anita Unruh -- 11. The psychological aspects of pain / Linda Edgar -- 12. Alternative nursing interventions / Carol Horrigan -- 13. Physiotherapy for the relief of pain / Robert A. Charman -- 14. The pharmacology of analgesics / Susan Tempest -- 15. Special procedures / Valerie M. F. King and Patricia Jacob.

ISBN

0750615885 :

LCCN

93025117

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries