Common Medications and Therapies for Pain course for Nurses
This session describes the most common pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods used in the management of pain, including how these medications are used, contraindications and side-effects.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Explain how common analgesics work
- Identify common side-effects of medications used to treat pain
- Identify appropriate analgesia for different severities of pain
- Recognize contraindications to medications given for pain
- Identify when to use non-pharmacological techniques to manage pain
The management of pain involves a multidimensional approach using a combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods. It is important to consider diagnosis, treat physical and emotional elements and titrate pain management to individual patients.
Ruth graduated from Oxford University in 2005 and worked in the Oxford Deanery before training in the Imperial School of Anaesthesia, London.
Her interests include acute and chronic pain management, regional techniques and paediatric anaesthesia.
She is an author for the e-PAIN project.
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