Laccetti, Margaret Saul

Pain management / Margaret Saul Laccetti, Mary K. Kazanowski - Second Edition - Sudbury, Massachussetts : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2009. - x, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Quick look nursing .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pain theory -- Pain assessment -- Interventions for pain -- Acute pain in the adult client -- Pain in the surgical client -- Escalating pain in the adult with cancer -- Pain in the adult with HIV -- Low back pain in adults -- Pain management in children -- Pain and the elderly -- Treatment of pain at the end of life -- The variable treatment of pain -- Strategies to assist family caregivers treating pain and suffering at the end of life

"Quick Look Nursing: Pain Management provides a discussion of clinically related topics in an integrated manner specific to nursing students and health professionals. This updated Second Edition describes how pain commonly manifests itself and gives information on how to assess for pain in different patient populations. Topics include pain assessment, acute pain in adults, pain in children, pain in the elderly, pain and HIV, and lower back pain in adults."

978-971-584-773-5 (pbk.)


Pain -- Nursing

DC 616.047222 / L11