The Importance Of Pain In Nursing

The Pain Diary is a questionnaire consisting of questions dealing with pain and its interference with their ability to live life normally. The method used in this article to conduct the research consisted of fifty-two adolescence that has sickle cell disease. The children involved were between twelve and eighteen years of age. The research was conducted on children who were patients at the East Coast Children Hospital. They could not have any siblings that participated in the experiment.

In conclusion, sickle cell anemia is when your blood cells aren't shaped right and they burst in your blood stream. It causes pain and can lead to stroke heart attacks and eventually death. There are three different types of sickle cell disease, it's a non-contagious disease that you get from your genes, there are treatments for it that eventually help with the problem. It affects a hundred thousand people in America although, it's more common for Africans and Hispanics.

“Pain” by Diane Ackerman is a story about pain. The author describes how people can withstand pain, and how difficult it is to define pain “which may be sharp, dull, shooting, throbbing, imaginary” (301). Culture and tradition are very important on people lives. Therefore, many of them do incredible things, in Istanbul for example “teenage boys dressed in shiny silk fezzes and silk suits decorated with glitter” (300), or in Bali people “go into trances and pick up red-hot cannonballs from an open fire, than carry them down the road” (298). This is just couple examples of controlling our body.

When I was born I was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia, and I believe that it is both strength and a challenge. Sickle Cell Anemia is a genetic blood disorder where the red blood cells are sickle-shaped and they clog blood vessels which can lead to pain crises and strokes. Two weeks later after my birth, my doctor told my mother that I wasn’t going to live past the age of one. When I was younger I didn’t know that I had a disease, I thought I was normal like the rest of my classmates. When I was four years old I had my first crisis

Since multiple sclerosis is one of the primary risk factors for trigeminal neuralgia, it is key for the nurse to get a thorough medical history assessment. When a patient first presents with neuropathic pain symptoms, the nurse should gather a thorough history and physical examination. To provide better patient care, nurses should be familiar with neuropathic pain clinical assessment tools.(Cite/nurse). The nurse should assess if and how often a patient experiences tingling, a burning sensation, electric shocks, numbness, or pain evoked by light touch or freezing pain. (Nurse).

When a patient is told they have a disease, they are shocked. Some patients worry that they may die, and others feel numb or confused about it. They may have a hard time realizing that their disease could be fatal. “When he asked if she was okay, her eyes welled with tears and she said, “Like I’m always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can’t do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different” (Skloot 276).

Pain The interchange of emotions and feelings within one’s self is a particularly hard thing to measure. Pain is a combatant of positive and negative change. Pain is one of the most prevalent causes of human change, and is a provoker of human deterioration. Pain has always been a major factor in healthcare.

It is pain that does not go away and can affect your ability to function during the

Physical pain according to Elaine Scarry is an “absolute slip between one’s sense of one’s reality and the reality of other people.” (4 Scarry) One of the things that I learned this semester after taking the Body in Pain class and having the opportunity of attending House of Loreto Nursing Home is how physical pain can be as painful as mental pain. In many cases, physical pain has no voice. As the audience, we are incapable of feeling and understanding how much pain they are experiencing. In the essay “Body In pain”, Scarry writes about the difficulty of expressing pain and how “Physical pain has no voice but when it finds a voice, it begins to tell a story.”

Symptoms of sickle cell include, chronic pain, infection, swollen hands and feet and of course Anemia along with other serious symptoms. 1. However this symptom can vary from person to person and some have no symptoms at all. B. Sadly, there is no cure for this disease. 1.

144). He had also sustained several other injuries over the course of his life, including a blow to the face from a pickaxe, a bullet through a finger, and a burned hand - all with an indifference to pain (Westlake, 1952, p. 144). After Dr. Dearborn’s case study, various terms were used to describe these individuals, including “‘congenital universal insensitiveness to pain’ (Ford and Wilkins, 1938), ‘congenital universal indifference to pain’ (Boyd and Nie, 1949), and ‘congenital absence of pain’ (Winkelmann et al., 1962)” (Nagasako, Oaklander, & Dworkin, 2003, p. 214). From 1950-1970, two terms were used to describe Congenital Analgesia and were considered interchangeable: ‘congenital insensitivity to pain’ and ‘congenital indifference to pain’ (Nagasako et al., 2003, p. 213). Now, each of the two terms have distinct meanings and are used to distinguish between different groups of individuals.

Some people report that the pain is so severe that they need to be hospitalized in order to get a handle on the severity. The reason there is a delay in growth is because when the misshaped blood cells create a blockage, there is a decrease in oxygen to certain portions of the body. Sometimes with Sickle cell people experience swollen hands and feet. Not everyone who is affected with Sickle cell will pass it on when they have a child. The probability in passing it along increase when both parents carry the disease

This is important evidence because it gives us conditions and results of what can happen if patients get lower quality care. Patients’ are not having enough time getting checked up by a nurse, and nurses would miss some diagnostics. Patients are getting sick because of the poor care they are receiving from nurses. The care patients can get is affected by a nurse shortage, “Nursing workload definitely affects the time that a nurse can allot to various tasks. Under a heavy workload, nurses may not have sufficient time to perform tasks that can have a direct effect on patient safety.

The nurse faced a barrier due to the physician hierarchical working style. Collaborating using a multi-disciplinary approach and communicating effectively in explaining the disease process could have better manage her symptoms and improve the quality of her remaining life. It is important that early detection and treatment options are discussed by the physicians in an honest and open manner. As patients performance status decline healthcare members should provide informed decisions regarding diagnosis, prognosis and

For nineteen years I have been living with a constant struggle that seems to have no end. As a child, living through Sickle Cell Anemia took away the life a normal child would have. I was not able to play outside for long periods of time due to the fact that my body was not able to keep up with physical activity. Since I was about five years old, I had a near impossible