Approaches to Pain Management

2003. 165 pages. ISBN: 0-86688-800-4

Learn how organizations and their clinical leaders have developed, implemented, and evaluated their pain management activities. Developed especially for Ambulatory Care, Hospitals, Long Term Care, Behavioral Health Care, and Home Care. Learn to develop strategies to ensure effective pain management across the continuum of care, including ambulatory, hospital, long term care, home care, and behavioral settings. Approaches to Pain Management is a guide to preparing the policies and procedures that are necessary for effective evidence-based pain management. In Approaches to Pain Management you'll find practical assistance on how to develop and implement an effective and comprehensive pain management program; strategies for addressing the critical issues, barriers, and challenges in pain management; examples of evidence-based policies and procedures organizations have implemented to address Joint Commission standards; strategies for addressing cultural issues in pain management; and much more. Detailed case studies will show how and why leaders--nursing and medical staff, medical group directors, performance improvement coordinators, and others--develop and use pain management policies and procedures, and make decisions at major steps along the way. Examples will include how clinical leaders tailor pain assessment and management policies and procedures to pediatric, geriatric, and behavioral health care (for example, addiction) populations, as well as patients with conditions that cause severe pain, such as cancer, arthritis, and AIDS.

Item Number:
PMPP02

Price: $44.00 USD