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Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

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Pain management

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The Rationale And Design Of The Taper Wheel For Use In Tapering Opiod And Benzodiazepine Medications In Post-Operative Patients At Home, Celeste Knoff May 2012

The Rationale And Design Of The Taper Wheel For Use In Tapering Opiod And Benzodiazepine Medications In Post-Operative Patients At Home, Celeste Knoff

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

The management of post-operative pain in children is an art and a science that has yet to be perfected. While research findings differ widely on medications, methods, and timing of interventions to manage post-operative pain, one finding is consistently reported: the treatment of pediatric post-operative pain is suboptimal (Corizzo, Baker, & Henkelmann, 2000; Dowden, McCarthy, & Chalkiadis, 2008; Kavanagh, Watt-Watson, & Stevens, 2007; Vadivelu, Mitra, & Narayan, 2010; Zhang, Hsu, Zou, Li, Wang, & Huang, 2008). Reasons for this deficiency originate in biases of clinicians and parents, difficulties in assessing pain due to variances in physical and developmental levels of …


Persistent Pain In The Elderly: Improving Practice With Newman's Theory Of Health As Expanding Consciousness, Laura Quigg May 2011

Persistent Pain In The Elderly: Improving Practice With Newman's Theory Of Health As Expanding Consciousness, Laura Quigg

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

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