Today’s Lecture

Vital Signs Overview/Context Temperature Pulse Blood Pressure Respiratory Rate Oxygen Saturation Pain

Assignment

Pain

Subjective Experience

↑ P ↑ R ↑ BP

Moaning/Groaning Restless Very Still

Pain Scales ≠ Objective Measurement

Pain Process

Tollefson 2007 pp148-151

Numerical Pain Scale

“If 0 out of 10 is completely pain free, and 10 out of 10 is the worst pain you

can imagine, what score would you give your pain

now?”

Pain Characteristics

Site

Onset

Duration

Quality (eg: burning, crushing, stinging, throbbing)

Faces Pain Scale

The Faces Pain Scale – Revised (Hicks, von Baeyer, Spafford, van Korlaar, Goodenough: Pain (2001); 93(2): 173-83. Used with permission from

IASP®. See www.painsourcebook.ca for instructions on use of the scale) as cited in Crisp & Taylor 2009: Figure 42-8

Faces Pain Scale

From Wong, D.L., Hockenberry-Eaton, M., Wilson, D., Winkelstein, M.L., Ahmann, E., DiVito-Thomas, P.A. (1999) Whaley and Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children, ed. 6, St. Louis,

1999, p. 2040. Copyrighted by Mosby, Inc

Accessed via www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/youngpeople/page7

Today’s Lecture

Vital Signs Overview/Context Temperature Pulse Blood Pressure Respiratory Rate Oxygen Saturation Pain

Assignment