Pain management for nurses

This video provides an introductory overview of pain. During the video the topics covered will be: What is pain? How do you assess pain? How do you treat pain? and nursing tips and tricks.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the pain pathways of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
• Understand pain assessment and the use of validated pain scales. - Grasp the concepts of multi-modal analgesia
• Recognise contributing factors of the patient’s experience of pain.
• Be aware of nursing interventions and management strategies that may be used in the treatment of pain