Question

3. Why is reassessment of pain important after a nursing intervention to relieve pain? Provide a rationale for your response that is supported by evidence based resources. (example, something like this: Pain reassessment is important with the administration of pain medication because _______________ . this documentation helps ________________________ and also to see if the patient may _______________________)

4, What should the nurse do if pain is not relieved after an intervention? Provide a rationale for your response that is supported by evidence-based resources.

5. Identify two complementary (nonpharmacologic) therapies for pain management. Discuss their use and benefit. Provide an evidence-based
rationale for your response.

6. What is the difference between addiction, physical dependence, and medication tolerance? Provide a rationale for your response that is supported
by evidence-based resources.

7. Consider the client's situation you just watched.  
Now consider a a client situation involving a 43-year-old construction foreman who has been on disability for 2 years due to neck and back pain. He is married and has three young children. He spends his days attempting to relieve his pain by taking pain medication and visiting his health care providers.
○ How do you think the client feels? Why do you think he feels this way? How might the nurse assess the client to gain accurate health information?
○ How do you feel about the client? What prior life events could have contributed to your feelings? How can you effectively address these
feelings to provide unbiased, optimal client care?

Answer 1

Q3

Answer: Reassessment of pain is very important after nursing intervention. It is because it helps to understand the effectiveness of the medication or intervention for the reduction of the pain by comparing the pain level before administration and after administration. This will help the nurse to take decision whether to give another reduced medication or intervention if the pain is still not subside.

Q4

Answer: If the pain is not relieve after the nursing intervention, the nurse should check for alternative intervention that can be done after informing the consult doctor. Example: increasing the dose of analgesic after advice by the doctor.

Q5

Answer: The two complementary therapy that helps to reduce the pain are meditation and accupuncture.

Meditation is the process of relaxing the mind and body. The uses of meditation is that it helps to keep mentally relax that leads to reduce the pain because usually physical pain is related to mental stress or unrelaxed mind.

The advantages are include free from stress, makes body and mind calm.

Accupuncture is a traditional treatment for pain by increasing the energy force. It is believes that pain are occurs in the body when the energy force are blocked. In this, small needles are inserted at the accupuncture point and relieve the blocked energy force and reduce the pain. The advantages is that it reduce the pain level and also helps to reduce the nausea and vomiting level after chemotherapy.

Q6

Addiction is the condition that develop to a person due to repeated intake of the particular drug and leads to not qble to stop taking it.  

Physical dependence is the development of physical withdrawal symptoms if the person stop to take it. The person body is dependent to the particular medication or drug.

Medication tolerance is the condition in which the person's body is no longer response to the drug dose. To response properly there is need to take higher amount of the particular drug or medication.