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Nursing Implications The identification of the pediatric patient’s preferred self-imposed pain management methods will significantly affect the delivery of nursing care for these patients. The ability to recognize the child’s preferred interventions will allow the nurse to better assess and care for the child’s pain. Interventions can be developed accordingly that will significantly decrease the child’s overall level of pain. Many nurses do not place significant emphasis on managing pain in pediatric patients. Performing a more thorough pain assessment is an issue of great importance for the nursing community. While performing this pain assessment, nurses will be able to incorporate information regarding complementary therapies to help alleviate the patient’s pain. Currently, nurses use a variety of pain scales to assess a child’s pain and pain relief measures are initiated based on this nursing assessment. Though pain assessments are routinely completed, nurses often fail to question the child regarding the self-imposed pain relief methods utilized to relieve pain. Listening to the patient regarding self-imposed pain management strategies and including complementary pain management options will help to augment pharmacological methods, which will help to greatly reduce the child’s pain.
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