April 3, 2017 - A new Behavior Pain Assessment Tool (BPAT) provides a simple way to evaluate pain in critically ill patients--including those who aren't able to communicate their pain verbally, ...

While nursing home residents suffer from pain, anxiety and other distressing symptoms, they are unable to communicate their discomfort due to cognitive impairments. With electronic health records ...

Purpose: To examine the issue of pain assessment in infants by acquiring all available published pain assessment tools and evaluating their reported reliability, validity, clinical utility, and ...

KUTV — The following information is provided by Intermountain Health. May 6-12 is National Nurses Week. During the pandemic many people recognized nurses as working at the hospital bedside and in ...

Assessing and managing pain in older adults with cognitive impairment presents unique challenges due to reduced capacity for verbal self-report, atypical pain presentations and fluctuating cognitive ...

Nursing home care providers were able to more smoothly adopt evidence-based pain management guidelines when they had the support of pain management champions, a study in Sweden has found. A pain ...

A tool that was once used to examine the intensity and frequency of pain in dementia patients following their death has been revamped to help skilled nursing facilities deliver palliative care to ...

A comprehensive assessment of the spine is essential for an accurate diagnosis. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with a self-assessment test Nursing Times Self-assessment articles offer ...

Fig 1. Minimum-maximum symptom prevalence (%) for patients with cancer (n = total number of patients involved in the studies for each symptom). Adapted from systematic review findings of Solano et al.

A recent doctoral dissertation found that parents — one of the most effective sources of pain relief for infants — are still ...

Infant pain assessment is challenging because infants are unable to verbalize the presence and intensity of their pain. Pain is uniquely experienced and expressed by each individual and can be ...