Question: Describe How Making Assumptions About Someone’s Pain Interferes With Positive Care Review The Misconceptions Related To Pain. What Did You Learn About Your Understanding Of Pain? What Are The Differences Between Acute And Chronic Pain? What Is The Effect Of Untreated Pain? Describe What Environment Needs To Be Created To Encourage A Helpful, Healing …

1. Describe how making assumptions about someone’s pain interfereswith positive care

2. Review the misconceptions related to pain.
   1. What did you learn about your understanding of pain?
   2. What are the differences between acute and chronic pain?
   3. What is the effect of untreated pain?
   4. Describe what environment needs to be created to encourage ahelpful, healing relationship with regards to pain.

3. What is the standard for pain assessment?

4. How might the following factors affect a patient’s perceptionof pain?

1. Previous Experience and beliefs about pain
2. Family and Social Support
3. Spiritual Factors
4. Cultural Factors

5. Identify and briefly describe common characteristics of painthat a caregiver needs to assess:
   1. Onset and duration
   2. Provocative/Palliative factors
   3. Quality
   4. Region/Radiation
   5. Severity
   6. Timing
   7. Understanding (behavioral effects, influence on ADL’s)
   8. Value & goals (Patient expectations)
   9. Relief measures

6.    What is thepurpose of the standard sedation scale?

      7.     Howlong after providing an intervention do you assess its effect?