Pain and ComfortChapter 41
Pain and Comfort
•Pain
–Is an elusive and complex phenomenon, anddespite its universality, its exact nature remains amystery. It is one of the body’s defensemechanisms that indicates the person isexperiencing a problem. “Pain is whatever theexperiencing person says it is.”
•Comfort
–Through comfort and comfort measures . . .Nurses provide strength, hope, solace, support,encouragement, and assistance. A variety of nursing theorists refer to comfort as a basic clientneed for which nursing care is delivered
Categories of Pain
•Duration•Source•Mode of Transmission•Etiology
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