Pain assessment is a broad concept involving clinical judgment based on observation of the type, significance and context of the individual’s pain experience. Pain measurement tools: are instruments designed to measure pain. Pain assessment: is a multidimensional observational assessment of a patients’ experience of pain.
“Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage” (IASP 2020).“Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever the experiencing person says it does” (McCaffery, 1989).The guideline specifically seeks to provide nurses with information regarding In addition family response to their child in pain can have a negative or positive influence. Pain is multidimensional therefore assessment must include the intensity, location, duration and description, the impact on activity and the factors that may influence the child’s perception of pain (bio psychosocial phenomenon) The influences that may alter pain perception and coping strategies include social history/issues, cultural and religious beliefs, past pain experiences and the first pain experience. Acute pain (noiciception) is associated with tissue damage and an inflammatory response, it is self limiting of short duration and does not involve neural tissue. Pain is the most common symptom children experience in hospital. Nurses are in a unique position to assess pain as they have the most contact with the child and their family in hospital. Pain assessment is crucial if pain management is to be effective.
For acute medical and surgical pain in children
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