Product Description

Responding to the needs of patients in pain is fundamental to nursing care. All nurses, no matter how experienced they are or what field of nursing they work in, require the knowledge base and skills to help them to address this distressing symptom. This accessible guide aims to enhance the ability of nurses everywhere to provide the care their patients deserve. It includes exercises to enable readers to expand their knowledge base and reflect upon their own practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #441505 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
ELOISE CARR is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University. - EILEEN MANN is Lecturer/Practitioner at the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University. AE(00): -

Customer Reviews

An excellent text for practitioners looking at Chronic Pain
This text provides a fabulous learning experience in pain management.
I use it as a core text in my Research Centre.
Well laid out and provides the basis for self study.
Dr David McNaughton - Director Abertay Pain Management Research Centre, Dudhope Castle, Dundee

Probably the best (fairly) recent book on pain management for students
Probably the best recent book on pain management that is accessible to student nurses. It is widely used within curricula because it contains factual information and practical advice. It also includes learning objectives and learning activities. The text is supported by clear diagrams and tables and it is easily digestible. Its main fault however is that it is very prescriptive in its approach and tends to provide instructions for managing pain instead of encouraging critical thinking. The use of indicative reading means that it is beginning to date fairly rapidly.