Essays on Pain
Assessment Of Pain Maggie is a 73-year-old patient who had a fall and sustained a laceration to the back of her head and is now admitted in the hospital for a hip fracture. This essay will evaluate the Roper Logan and Tierney (RLT) Activities of Daily Living (ADL) (1996) framework to explore Maggie ability to...
Neck pain has become more prevalent and rampant in our society and mainly it is because of the inappropriate posture like forwarding head posture (FHP). As IT technology develops, it is not unknown that many people are suffering from neck pain due to FHP because they use their computers or mobile phones for long periods...
Smoking tobacco increases the risks for CVD and the rates of hospitalisation with or death from ACS, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral arterial disease (Banks et.al, 2019). Mr. X consumes four standard drinks a day and drinks every day. This is above the recommended limits for alcohol consumption in men, by Ministry of New Zealand (2019)....
Abstract In the nursing profession we consider pain as the fifth vital sign. It is the most common reason that patients seek medical attention. As nurses we are limited to the resources available to us for the treatment of pain, that are non-pharmacologic. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of those options,...