Assessment Skills + Pain Assessment Flashcards
What are the 4 types of assessments?
Comprehensive Health History
Focused Assessment
Admission Assessment
Emergency Assessment
What are 4 sources of data/information?
Patient
Family/Significant Other
Other members of the health care team
Medical/Patient records
What are 5 ways of gathering Assessment Information?
Observation / General survey
Interviewing / communicating
Measurements
Physical examination
Diagnostic tests
What are some things included in the Observation/General Survey?
Age
Sex
Level of Consciousness
Skin Colour
Nutrition
Posture
Symmetry…..
What is Gait?
A person’s manner of walking
What are the three types of Nociceptive Pain?
Cutaneous Pain
Somatic Pain
Visceral Pain
What are the three types of Nociceptive Pain Categories?
Cutaneous
Somatic
Visceral
What is Somatic Pain?
Involves bones, ligaments, tendons, blood vessels, nerve tissue
What is Visceral Pain?
Involves body organs (chest, abdomen, brain)
*is hard to point at
What is Neuropathic pain?
Injury to/abnormal functioning of peripheral/ central nerves
What is Cancer pain?
Stimulation of nociceptors
by chemicals released by
tumour cells
Describe Acute Pain
Sudden Onset
< 3 months
Varies from mild to severe
What are the benefits of a Pain Assessment?
Facilitate diagnosis + identify cause
Initiate treatment modalities
Evaluation of pain/treatment recieved
Describe Chronic Pain
> 3 months
Characterised by Exacerbations + Remissions
What are some Pain Measurement Tools?
Number Scales
Subjective Assessment Tool Kit
Wong Faces Scale
F.L.A.C.C (face, legs, activity, cry, consolability)
