Pain Management
Pain Management in Palliative Care
This chapter provides an overview of the assessment and management of pain at the end of life. Definitions of pain and barriers to adequate pain management are also addressed....
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Leg Ulcers
This chapter first discusses the assessment and treatment of leg ulcers in general terms. Specific advice is given on the assessment and management of particular types of leg ulcers such as Venous leg ulcers and Arterial leg ulcers...
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Preventing Abuse of Old People
This new practice guide will be presented in the context of the Victorian Government Elder Abuse Prevention Strategy, which includes a range of initiatives all based on principles that empower older people.
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Side view of Spine and Spinal Cord
Using four different colours to show the different sections of the spinal cord, this image allows the individual to easily label and write their own notes about the spine and spinal cord.
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Advanced Symptom Management
Symptoms associated with progressive gynaecological malignancy include pain, fatigue, breathlessness, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, constipation and symptoms associated with haemorrhage and fungation. This chapter examines the management of these symptoms.
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Constipation (in palliative care)
This chapter focuses on an evidenced-based practice approach to the management of constipation in the hospice setting and provides an overview of constipation management in the context of caring for adults at the end of life...
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Older Men and Urology Problems
Summary of common urology problems in Older Men. Practical advice and strategies to help Older Men with Urology Problems.
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CBT Interventions for Cancer-Related Pain
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one method of dealing with cancer-related pain. By implementing CBT techniques in care provision, cancer patients may be able to gain even more effective pain relief.
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Complementary Therapies in a Palliative Care Setting: The Clinical Experience
This chapter provides a comprehensive insight into the incorporation of various complementary therapies into the hospice, and the development of complementary therapy as a model of nursing practice...
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Physical Care (Palliative)
This chapter discusses the common physical signs and symptoms of older persons who are dying. It looks at various types of patients and how they should be cared for...
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Nursing Older People Experiencing Pain
Nursing strategies to assist an older person experiencing pain. How to manage pain in an older person. Management of pharmacological control of pain.
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Types of Pain & Management: “What the Patient says Hurts”
This lecture provides a detailed overview of the different types of pain experienced by patients with medical/surgical conditions. Definitions and experiences of pain are provided. Acute and chronic pain are defined and described.
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How Drugs Work 1: An Overview of Drugs
This first session, entitled 'An Overview of Drugs' contains 31 PowerPoint slides prepared FOR YOU TO TEACH. It gives preliminary but fundamental information about the administration and use of drugs in Australia.
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Pain Management in Aged Care
Pain is most often poorly managed in those who are most defenceless against it ‐ the elderly. The focal point of this chapter provides nurses with an insight into pain and how it can be effectively handled...
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Documenting Pain Management
This chapter aims to convey correct pain management documentation methods and the difficulties in communication that arise in aged-care...
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Ageing, Dementia and Palliative Care
This chapter discusses communication and planning; the nurse’s role as story-teller; whose voice will be heard?; problems with communication; and when ‘enough is enough’ in relation to palliative care...
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The Challenge of Chronic Illness in the Community - Part Two
There is a shifting policy perspective regarding the management of chronic illness. Changing lifestyle behaviours and leadership in the face of debilitating chronic disease will enhance prospects for self management of chronic illness.
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Reaching Our Limit of Coping
This fast fact sheet provides both information about and a diagram of the stress threshold - how much we can handle and what we should do when we know we've reached that threshold...
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Pain Management
In this chapter, learn more about the experience of pain in older people and how to assess an elderly resident’s pain and manage it effectively...
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Complementary Care (Palliative)
This chapter describes some of the many forms of complementary care
that can be provided to an older person who is dying. It also discusses complementary care as an important component of total care and not just an ‘optional extra’...
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