The average patient I see in outpatient always states pain level of 5 or greater on the scale of 0 to 10. Very few with chronic pain state pain levels of 4 or less. I am researching to see what other...
Doyou use the pain scale 0 to 10? How do most of your patients comprehend the scale? Do you use additional handouts to educate each patient? And what do ou use? Pictures or written material? I am...
In outpatient we use the pain scale of 0 to 10 then have another written complete assessment if the patient has pain. The problem I see is that most of the patients having pain rate their pain at 5 or...
I don't have the information handy right now. Your nurse manager should be giving you all the information and also help you with your proficiency including giving you different examples to use. Also...