Pain

• Pain - message to the brain, whole body experience and involves the mind and body
• referred pain - pain experienced at point distant to its point of origin
• radiating pain - perceived at the source of pain and extends to nearby tissue
• surgical pain - pain due to surgery that can last for few days
• phantom pain - longer lasting effect of surgery
• bone pain - can happen when cancer spreads to the bones
• provokes - what cause the pain?
• Quality - what does it feel like? is it sharp?
• Radiates - where does the pain radiate
• Severity - How severe is the pain
• time - time pain has started
• Wong baker face pain rating scale - use for children
• Behavioral Pain Indicator

  • facial expression
  • verbalization

  • non verbal
  • restlessnes
  • subtle behavior