The following is an installment of the "Try This" series published by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. The content is intended to encourage nurses to understand the ...

Pain is the most common reason patients seek health services. Healthcare professionals must think deeply about pain and its consequences and provide pain assessment and management services in a just ...

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has issued a “Practice Alert” with evidence-based recommendations to assess pain in critically ill patients. • Attempt to obtain the patient’s ...

A team of researchers, led by Carl Saab from Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, has developed a new method that is claimed to objectively measure pain levels. The system uses ...

While nursing home residents suffer from pain, anxiety and other distressing symptoms, they are unable to communicate their discomfort due to cognitive impairments. With electronic health records ...

According to a paper titled Pain Management in the Elderly Population: A Review published in The Ochsner Journal in 2010, pain may be underreported because some elderly patients incorrectly believe ...

In a prospective trial of patients with moderate to severe low back pain who were treated with the lidocaine patch, results showed improved scores on the Neuropathic Pain Scale over for the length of ...

For some causes of knee pain, x-rays can be diagnostic (e.g., fracture, osteoarthritis [OA], and rheumatoid arthritis [RA]). But for other causes (e.g., sprains, ligament tears, meniscal tears), ...

Dementia isn’t a specific disease. Instead, it describes a collection of symptoms that affect a person’s thinking and social abilities enough to interfere with daily life. There are more than 55 ...

Persistent pain is common in older adults, and its consequences are often severe. Self-assessment scales have been validated in older populations and remain the gold standard for the evaluation of ...

According to a paper titled Pain Management in the Elderly Population: A Review published in The Ochsner Journal in 2010, pain may be underreported because some elderly patients incorrectly believe ...