Thesis
Breakthrough Pain: Assessment and Management in Clinical Practice
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
2007
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3676
Abstract
Breakthrough pain presents a complex clinical challenge for the primary care provider and patient. Despite increased awareness and treatment options for pain management for those with chronic non-malignant and malignant pain breakthrough pain is frequently under diagnosed and under treated. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and synthesize current literature and research to identify distinguishing characteristics of breakthrough pain, the impact of breakthrough pain on patients, providers, and society, and provide evidence-based guidelines for assessment, and treatment in clinical practice. The data sources for this manuscript include: the PubMed search engine (part of the National Library of Medicine), Medscape, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature databases were used to analyze peer-reviewed journal articles and literature on the assessment and management of breakthrough pain. From these data sources pertinent research articles from 1999 to 2007 were reviewed. The conclusion is that breakthrough pain can be effectively diagnosed and managed by nurse practitioners using pertinent assessment skills, pharmacotherapy, and complementary non-pharmacological treatment.
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- Title
- Breakthrough Pain: Assessment and Management in Clinical Practice
- Creators
- Sabrina Enochs Chiu
- Contributors
- Lorna Schumann (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900591036101842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis