Asking a patient, "Do you have pain?" is not enough intervention for effective pain management by nurses

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November 8, 2015

 

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Mistrust between the patient and the nurse can cause ineffective pain management due to the underreporting or exaggerated reporting of pain (Daly 1999). Therefore, for the integrity of patient assessment, it is vital that there is trust and understanding between the nurse and patient. From this discussed therapeutic relationship, there is a basis from which the nurse can converse the patient's experience of their pain...
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Therefore, for the integrity of patient assessment, it is vital that there is trust and understanding between the nurse and patient. From this discussed therapeutic relationship, there is a basis from which the nurse can converse the patient's experience of their pain. Carr et al (1997) describes pain as 'whatever the experiencing person says it is and exists when ever they say it does...
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