Pain Management in Aged Care
Chronic pain; making invisible pain visible. Learn how to identify older Australians experiencing chronic pain and communicate with the multi-disciplinary team who can provide support.
Description
Being a personal care worker entails assisting older Australians who are in pain. By carrying out pain assessment methods, learners will be able to apply support measures for older Australians who are in pain. Learners will also focus on how to assess various pains in older Australians and how to use certain techniques and tools to help with pain management.
Learning Objective
By completion of this question set, learners will be able to:
- Carry out pain assessment procedures.
- Implement support strategies where pain is identified.
Questions
- Assess ischemic pain
- Assessment Tools
- Assess pain
- Impacts of pain
- Acute vs Chronic
- Transferring older Australians in pain
- Cancer related pain
- Conventional and CAM therapies
Pain Management in Aged Care
Chronic pain; making invisible pain visible. Learn how to identify older Australians experiencing chronic pain and communicate with the multi-disciplinary team who can provide support.
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