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Pain affects many aspects of your patient’s reality. Learn about the seven dimensions of pain and how to evaluate them.
Read up on the latest evidence-based best practices in pain management.
On May 8, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Senza spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system to help manage chronic intractable pain of the trunk and/or…
Be sure you’re up to date on this common problem.
To combat the opioid epidemic, the ANA encourages alternative approaches to treating pain, such as increasing prescriber training, improving access to treatment, and exploring other pain management options.…
By Rosemary C. Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN Advances in battlefield trauma management have significantly improved survival among military personnel injured in the current Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, compared to…
Less pain means a great gain for patients. Learn about ANA’s agenda to improve the management of chronic and acute pain.
Key takeways Patients may experience cancer pain even after their cancer has been adequately treated and is in remission or cured. Proper assessment is key to pain management…
Chronic pain has widespread effects on older adults. This article describes how to help patients manage it.
Visit a new one-stop resource for managing pain in the elderly at www.geriatricpain.org. Sections of the site include pain assessment, pain management, education, quality improvement, resources, and FAQs.…
ANA offers guidance to help address a national and global epidemic. ON MY WAY INTO WORK at the burn center early in my career, I’d often worry about…
The National Institute of Nursing Research is studying ways to promote better outcomes for patients with chronic pain.
Evidence-based recommendations. Takeaways: Inadequate postoperative pain relief can increase length of stay, delay discharge, increase readmission rates, and delay ambulation. Exploring the postoperative challenges faced by patients with…
Accurately assessing and detecting acute or chronic pain in older adults (65 years and older) is challenging, especially if they have difficulty recognizing, interpreting, and communicating their pain…
ANA’s new position statement on pain management offers guidance When a federal law permanently expanded medication-assisted treatment (MAT) prescribing authority to NPs and PAs in October 2018 (with…
An individualized, multimodal, and interprofessional approach is key for success. Takeaways: Many pediatric patients experience unnecessary pain because of undertreatment and inadequate pain management after surgery. Barriers to…
A procedure may be routine to you, but the pain it produces isn’t routine to your patient.
Nursing Strategies to Improve Pain Care in Veterans and Military Personnel
By Kevin T. Galloway, BSN, MHA; Chester C. Buckenmaier III, MD; Rollin M. Gallagher, MD, MPH; and Rosemary C. Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN An important initial step in…
In the military healthcare system, the need for aggressive management of acute pain associated with combat injuries and trauma is obvious. An equally important and possibly greater issue facing…
By Kevin T. Galloway, BSN, MHA; Chester C. Buckenmaier III, MD; and Rosemary C. Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN Pain is a significant challenge both for those who experience…
Anne Fuqua, a former nurse, recently shared her opioid crisis story in the Washington Post. But it’s not the story you might be expecting to hear. Anne isn’t…
One hospital’s journey to improve the patient experience. Takeaways In an effort to improve the state of pain management, nurses in the acute care setting of one hospital…
A catastrophic diagnosis puts nursing care to the test
The complicated case of a retiree with a newly diagnosed lung tumor kicks off our new “Case Study” department.
Assessing the seven dimensions of pain
Pain affects many aspects of your patient’s reality. Learn about the seven dimensions of pain and how to evaluate them.
FDA approves new spinal cord stimulation system for pain
On May 8, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Senza spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system to help manage chronic intractable pain…
Hypnosis and pain
To combat the opioid epidemic, the ANA encourages alternative approaches to treating pain, such as increasing prescriber training, improving access to treatment, and exploring…
Improving pain care for combat injured soldiers and veterans
By Rosemary C. Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN Advances in battlefield trauma management have significantly improved survival among military personnel injured in the current Afghanistan…
Improving pain management: Call to action
Less pain means a great gain for patients. Learn about ANA’s agenda to improve the management of chronic and acute pain.
Managing chronic pain in cancer survivors
Key takeways Patients may experience cancer pain even after their cancer has been adequately treated and is in remission or cured. Proper assessment is…
Managing chronic pain in the elderly
Chronic pain has widespread effects on older adults. This article describes how to help patients manage it.
New resource for pain management in the elderly
Visit a new one-stop resource for managing pain in the elderly at www.geriatricpain.org. Sections of the site include pain assessment, pain management, education, quality…
Nurses’ role in managing pain
ANA offers guidance to help address a national and global epidemic. ON MY WAY INTO WORK at the burn center early in my career,…
Nursing research takes aim at chronic pain
The National Institute of Nursing Research is studying ways to promote better outcomes for patients with chronic pain.
Optimizing postoperative pain management in patients with chronic pain
Evidence-based recommendations. Takeaways: Inadequate postoperative pain relief can increase length of stay, delay discharge, increase readmission rates, and delay ambulation. Exploring the postoperative challenges…
Pain assessment and nonpharmacologic management in older adults
Accurately assessing and detecting acute or chronic pain in older adults (65 years and older) is challenging, especially if they have difficulty recognizing, interpreting,…
Pain management: An ethical approach
ANA’s new position statement on pain management offers guidance When a federal law permanently expanded medication-assisted treatment (MAT) prescribing authority to NPs and PAs…
Pediatric pain management
An individualized, multimodal, and interprofessional approach is key for success. Takeaways: Many pediatric patients experience unnecessary pain because of undertreatment and inadequate pain management…
Recognizing and easing procedural pain
A procedure may be routine to you, but the pain it produces isn’t routine to your patient.
Special Report – War on Pain
Nursing Strategies to Improve Pain Care in Veterans and Military Personnel
Special report – War on Pain: Multimodal and multidisciplinary therapy for pain management
By Kevin T. Galloway, BSN, MHA; Chester C. Buckenmaier III, MD; Rollin M. Gallagher, MD, MPH; and Rosemary C. Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN An…
Special report – War on Pain: Pain management across the military continuum
In the military healthcare system, the need for aggressive management of acute pain associated with combat injuries and trauma is obvious. An equally important and…
Special report – War on Pain: Understanding pain and pain mechanisms
By Kevin T. Galloway, BSN, MHA; Chester C. Buckenmaier III, MD; and Rosemary C. Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN Pain is a significant challenge both…
Two sides to the opioid crisis
Anne Fuqua, a former nurse, recently shared her opioid crisis story in the Washington Post. But it’s not the story you might be expecting…
What works: How can we make you more comfortable?
One hospital’s journey to improve the patient experience. Takeaways In an effort to improve the state of pain management, nurses in the acute care…
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