Pain Management in the Nursing Home

Nursing Clinics of North America

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 197-208

  Dumas, Linda G ^a   Ramadurai, Murali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b Senior Health Care Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute; Anxiety; Chronic; End of life; Nursing home; Symptom burden; Transitional care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALGESIA; COMORBIDITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING HOME; NURSING PROCESS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; ANALGESIA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BENCHMARKING; COMORBIDITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LONG-TERM CARE; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING HOMES; NURSING PROCESS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 65549134664     PISSN: 00296465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnur.2009.04.001     Document Type: Review

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