| Description |
x, 250 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Quick look nursing |
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Quick look nursing.
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| Contents |
Pain theory -- Pain assessment -- Interventions for pain relief -- 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 and 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 |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Pain / Mary K. Kazanowski, Margaret Saul Laccetti. c2002 |
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Mary K. Kzaanowski is a professor in the Nursing Department at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. She teaches medical-surgical nursing and community nursing |
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Margaret Saul Laccetti is an assistant professor at Boston College |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to OVID Ebooks |
| Subject |
Pain -- Treatment.
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Pain -- Nursing.
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Pain.
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Nursing.
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Pain -- nursing.
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| Author |
Kazanowski, Mary K.
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Kazanowski, Mary K.
Pain
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Ovid Technologies, Inc.
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| LC no. |
2007038753 |
| ISBN |
9780763746865 |
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076374686X |
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