Unit HSC 2003 Provide support to manage pain and discomfort Level: 2 Credit value: 2 UAN number: K/601/9025 Unit aim This unit is aimed at those working in a wide range of settings. The unit provides the learner with the knowledge and skills to provide support for managing pain and discomfort. It covers approaches to pain management, assistance in minimising pain and discomfort and monitoring, recording and reporting on the management of pain and discomfort. Learning outcomes There are
1 Understand approaches to managing pain and discomfort: Holistic approach to managing pain and discomfort: If person is lack of capacity to explain pain (dementia or mental problems) It is imortant a holistic view to managing the pain. Using pain killers if GP suggest is to minimase pain. Agreed ways of working that relate to managing pain and discomfort: Pain awareness All healthcare professionals should be alert to the possibility of pain in older people, and to the fact that
1. Explain the importance of a holistic approach when supporting your service users to managing pain and discomfort. When talking about a holistic approach we need to think not only of the physical needs, so just pain which the service user has and from what is it, but we should also look at their emotional and mental needs, as they are just people who are worrying and probably not knowing what is happening to them, we need to think of their social needs, so understand that they will be worried
Provide support to manage pain and discomfort. Outcome1. 1. It is important to have a holistic approach to managing pain and discomfort as this is looking at a situation as a whole and how the ways of managing pain and discomfort can have an impact on the persons life. When you find where the pain comes from this can help you decide the best way to treat it. When you know the cause you can resolve the problem more accurately. Their pain maybe emotional if they are concerned about something
CU2626 Provide Support to Manage Pain and Discomfort 1.1 Holistic pain management and treatment is about seeing and treating pain not only as a physical condition but as an emotional and a spiritual one as well. Physical pain can be experienced as a result of disease or injury, or of some bodily distress. Pain and discomfort can present limitations of functional ability and interfere with quality of life. Holistic Pain Management may focus on aspects such as acupressure, aromatherapy, nutrition
PART I: PRINCIPLES OF PAIN MANAGEMENT General Principles of Pain Assessment • • • The process of pain management starts with adequate assessment of the pain The absence of appropriate assessment is the leading reason for poor pain management A comprehensive pain assessment addresses the pain's: o Nature o Cause o Underlying pathophysiology o Personal context: Psychological Social Spiritual Practical issues General Principles of Pain Management. A comprehensive pain management strategy includes:
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage This is a subjective sensation to which people respond in different ways Pain is a highly unpleasant and very personal sensation that cannot be shared with others and it can occupy all a person’s thinking, direct all activities, and change a person’s life, it is the noxious or unpleasant stimulation of threatened or actual tissue damage, it is the result of a complex pattern of stimuli generated
Provide support to manage pain and discomfort. Agreed ways are a set of rules, regulations, policies and procedures set out by the company which are kept in the office and are always available to be accessed. Care plans, policies and procedures always have to be followed and necessary precautions have to be taken. Before using any kind of methods to manage pain, the resident/service user needs to be assessed has every kind of pain relief can be potentially harmful. Care plans are made individually
Foxholes JOB DESCRIPTION Position: Reports to: Objectives of Job • • • • To provide high quality nursing care to residents To work as a member of the nursing team, carrying out all relevant forms of care in conjunction with other nurse practitioners To ensure that care services are consistently provided to a high quality standard ensuring the personal care needs of residents, are met while respecting the dignity of the individual and promoting independence. To assist in the nursing care of the residents
Unit 4222-212 Provide support to manage pain and discomfort (HSC 2003) Outcome 1 Understand approaches to managing pain and discomfort The learner can: 1. Explain the importance of a holistic approach to managing pain and discomfort * Using a holistic approach is important because it gets to the root of the problem, to the reason you’re having pain to begin with. Pain may be coming from another part of the body. When you try to find out where the pain originates from this