Product Description

Clearly sets out the research base for practice and provides a thorough and accessible text for students of this core topic on all entry level and many post-registration nursing courses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1021741 in Books
• Published on: 1999-12-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

From the Back Cover
An excellent introduction for nurses to all aspects of pain experience and its management. Topics examined are relevant to all areas of health care practice and include:
types of pain
the experience of pain, including psycho-social factors
interventions (pharmacological, physical and psychological)
alternative and complementary therapies
Caring for People in Pain clearly sets out the research base for practice and provides a thorough and accessible text for students of this core topic on all entry level and many post-registration nursing courses.

Customer Reviews

A comprehensive book on the difficult topic of pain
This excellent book treats pain as the problem, regardless of its cause. It covers all aspects of the subject from influential factors and interventions, to management of pain, in all age groups. For a book whose scope is so wide it manages to be quite detailed. The referencing is superb so where coverage in the book itself may be lacking, the author has given the reader the necessary information to follow it up for themselves. A very worthwhile purchase for any student nurse or qualified practitioner interested in this complex issue which affects most of our clients at some time.