NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 54: Pain Assessment and Non-Pharmacological Comfort Measures

Sarah Mitchell builds pain assessment from the ground rule that pain is whatever the patient says it is: PQRST and OLDCARTS, the numeric scale, Wong Baker FACES from age three, FLACC for infants and nonverbal patients, and PAINAD for dementia. She contrasts acute and chronic pain, nociceptive and neuropathic pain, referred and phantom pain, dismantles the pediatric and older adult pain myths, lays out the twenty minute heat and cold rules, TENS contraindications, analgesic timing and reassessment, and the multimodal opioid sparing approach.

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