Pain Assessment Case Study

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND

Nurses were responsible to have knowledge and right practice on pain assessment for their patient. In medical dictionary, pain was defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that is conveyed by sensory neurons to the brain. Pain also have been defined as an unpleasant sensation that is created by a noxious stimulus mediated along the specific nerve pathways to the central nervous system (CNS), where it is interpreted (Mosby’s Dental Dictionary, 2008). Pain was an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, actual or potential tissue damage due to a complex interaction of sensory, emotional and behavioral factors that may be acute or chronic, visceral, somatic or neurogenic

It can prevent a negative impact to the organ system, physically or psychologically (Bower & Reuter, 2009). Negative psychological that patient may experience is fear, depression, fatigue, anxiety and feeling helplessness. Pains that experience by ill patient can be managed by administer analgesic. The analgesic can reduce patient pain and it enable patient to cough and having deep breathing with minimal pain. The nurses need to do a proper assessment and regular documentation about pain in prescribing appropriate analgesic to optimal relief the pain. It was very important for the nurses having enough knowledge and understanding about the disease to achieve quality pain assessment (Ashley,

The hospital also will gain profit from it. Patient satisfaction with the service that they have received in the hospital is really related to the how their pain has been managed. Patient may be report about the advent of transparent health care, the prevalent of report cards for hospitals, and also performance or action on pain management that can be one of the indicators. The health care setting also can provide check list and legal policy about pain assessment and management to the staff nurse in order to make sure they follow the checklist as well. Every organization want their healthcare team provide a good and quality service to patient to make them satisfied toward treatment given. From this study, it will help the organization solve the problem and the factor that effect poor assessment and management of pain from their healthcare