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 ...

Expanding the use of best care practices for nursing assistants, who are on the front lines of providing direct nursing home care, may help improve the early detection of pain and pain management for ...

Accurate assessment of acute pain is essential for the development of an effective pain management plan. Nurses play a pivotal role in the assessment of pain, owing to the nature of their relationship ...

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 ...

It’s an experience that most everyone has had at a doctor or hospital visit, where at some point, usually early on, the question ‘on a scale of 0-10, what’s your level of pain?’ comes up. Then, before ...

We performed a MEDLINE search for all English-language articles published from January 1966 through February 2006 using the medical subject headings terms of pain or pain measurement and outcome ...

To examine the association of pain assessment scores achieved through regular reassessment practice, as required by the Joint Commission (JC), with painful events and the use of analgesics in ...

Objectives To identify common recommendations for high-quality care for the most common musculoskeletal (MSK) pain sites encountered by clinicians in emergency and primary care (spinal (lumbar, ...