• Pain Manag Nurs · Dec 2013

    Review Case Reports

    Management of the hospitalized patient experiencing acute on chronic pain: a case study.

    • Margaret Costello, Hallie Greenberg, Caprie Bell, and Jennefer Trowers-Smith.
    • Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts.. Electronic address: margaret.costello@simmons.edu.
    • Pain Manag Nurs. 2013 Dec 1;14(4):e268-73.

    AbstractThe ability to balance the patient's level of comfort while minimizing adverse outcomes related to overdosing remains the key to providing excellent post operative care for the patient with chronic pain. This article presents the case of a hospitalized patient with severe pain and the challenges her care presented to the nursing staff.Copyright © 2013 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        

    hide…