Rsng 1523 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Nursing Care of the Client with Pain Objectives: Discuss the characteristics, concepts, and processes related to the individual experiencing pain. 1. Define pain. “Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does” – Pasero and McCaffery “An unpleasant, subjective sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage” – international Association for the study of pain (IASP) NOTE: PAIN IS PURELY SUBJECTIVE U...