Description:
This presentation reviews basic principles of pain assessment and management with a focus on pain at the end of life. Comprehensive pain assessment is essential to adequate pain relief. Yet there are many barriers that impede pain assessment and treatment. It is vital that nurses work collaboratively with the patient, their family and the interdisciplinary team toward optimum use of drug and non-drug interventions. Treatment of pain at the end of life also includes attention to suffering.

Objectives:

• Identify barriers to adequate pain relief at the end of life for patients across the life span
• List components of a thorough pain assessment
• Describe pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapies used to relieve pain
• Discuss the role of the nurse involved with pain assessment and management at the end of life
  

*** Hospice Education Network is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

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