FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W1967450226> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W1967450226 endingPage "98" @default.
• W1967450226 startingPage "97" @default.
• W1967450226 abstract "September is traditionally a month of endings and beginnings. Once Labor Day arrives, we say goodbye to summer activities and begin to prepare for the Fall and Winter seasons. The days become shorter and the nights become longer. As each day passes in September, most of us feel a little more of a chill in the air. Saying farewell to the summer festivities and vacation mindset often leaves us with feelings of sadness. However, at the same time that we are saying goodbye to summer, we are often engaged in new beginnings. September marks the beginning of the academic year. While many of us are not in academic settings as our primary workplace, many of us are sending children “off to school” and to new beginnings. An amazing sense of excitement and anticipation is associated with new beginnings. New beginnings often involve preparation and risk taking—but in a sense that is what life is all about. This month is a new beginning in pain management. September 2003 is the beginning of an annual event called Pain Awareness Month. I hope that all of you who are reading this editorial have made plans to participate in this new beginning for pain management. Several pain organizations including the American Society of Pain Management Nurses, the American Pain Society, and the American Chronic Pain Association are disseminating ideas for how to hold a Pain Awareness Day in your institution or community. A Pain Awareness Day should focus on pain assessment and treatment in health care facilities across the United States. As a grass roots effort, nurses, physicians, and other health care professionals can provide information to other health care professionals, patients, family caregivers, and members of the public on the problem of undertreatment of pain, effective approaches to pain assessment, and effective approaches to pain treatment. The American Chronic Pain Association developed a list of activities that could be done for a day or for the entire month. For example, at your institution, you could develop posters that explain the facts about acute and chronic pain. In addition, posters could be developed that teach patients and family caregivers about how to talk to their doctors and nurses about pain. Other topics for posters might include pharmacologic approaches for pain management, effective approaches to manage the side effects of analgesic medications, and nonpharmacologic approaches for pain management. Offering continuing education programs in the assessment and management of pain would be another way to showcase National Pain Awareness Month. One of the most effective approaches would be to have a multidisciplinary pain conference. The involvement of all of the disciplines in the educational program on pain management would model the clinical approaches that are most effective in improving patient outcomes regarding pain management. The goal would be to have all of the health care professionals who are involved in pain management “on the same page”, so to speak, about how to assess and manage acute and chronic pain within your institution. Perhaps the educational initiative could be built around challenging case studies. The use of the case study approach would allow clinicians from various disciplines to voice their approaches to the assessment and management of pain in these challenging patients. One of the most important parts of the discussion would be to have the clinicians from the various disciplines provide a rationale for their approach. Facilitators could encourage a dialogue among the different disciplines or within and among individuals with different points of view to determine which approach would be best for the patient. These types of discussions could result in the development of standard approaches to the management of different types of pain. Another way to celebrate National Pain Awareness Month would be to engage in community activities. A clinical setting may develop a feature on their website that provides educational materials to the general public on pain and pain management. The website could focus on the facts about acute and chronic pain, pain assessment, misconceptions about pain, and pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic approaches for effective pain management. Another strategy might be to work with local newspaper reporters and radio shows to provide coverage of Pain Awareness Month. One approach to “get on the air” or onto the front page of the paper is to relate a story based on the successful treatment of a patient with chronic pain. Human interest stories are often viewed as attractive and newsworthy pieces by the media. Nurses could volunteer to give lectures on pain management at local churches or community centers. The lectures could focus on specific patient populations. For example, at a senior community center one might give a lecture on pain problems and management strategies for elderly individuals. Community programs have the potential to influence large numbers of individuals and to heighten awareness about the undertreatment of acute and chronic pain. As Fall begins and Pain Awareness Month is launched in 2003, I hope that each of you engage in some meaningful activity to promote better pain management in your work setting and in your community. Grassroots efforts have great potential to create meaningful changes in practice. One vision that we can hold is that if each of us creates a pain-free environment in our individual places of employment and in our communities—this concept of a pain-free environment will become a reality. The pessimists in the group may say that a pain-free environment is an unattainable goal. My answer to that is that “miracles do happen.”" @default.
• W1967450226 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W1967450226 creator A5088874608 @default.
• W1967450226 date "2003-09-01" @default.
• W1967450226 modified "2023-09-26" @default.
• W1967450226 title "Pain awareness month" @default.
• W1967450226 doi "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmn.2003.09.001" @default.
• W1967450226 hasPublicationYear "2003" @default.
• W1967450226 type Work @default.
• W1967450226 sameAs 1967450226 @default.
• W1967450226 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W1967450226 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W1967450226 hasAuthorship W1967450226A5088874608 @default.
• W1967450226 hasBestOaLocation W19674502261 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C111472728 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C118552586 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C122980154 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C15744967 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C1862650 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C2778491294 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C2779242764 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C2779302386 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C2779812673 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C2983098980 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C41895202 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C554936623 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C71924100 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConcept C77805123 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C111472728 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C118552586 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C122980154 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C138885662 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C15744967 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C17744445 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C1862650 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C199539241 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C2778491294 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C2779242764 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C2779302386 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C2779812673 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C2983098980 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C41895202 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C554936623 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C71924100 @default.
• W1967450226 hasConceptScore W1967450226C77805123 @default.
• W1967450226 hasIssue "3" @default.
• W1967450226 hasLocation W19674502261 @default.
• W1967450226 hasOpenAccess W1967450226 @default.
• W1967450226 hasPrimaryLocation W19674502261 @default.
• W1967450226 hasRelatedWork W2078730939 @default.
• W1967450226 hasRelatedWork W2092179672 @default.
• W1967450226 hasRelatedWork W2272711009 @default.
• W1967450226 hasRelatedWork W2358238042 @default.
• W1967450226 hasRelatedWork W2367559888 @default.
• W1967450226 hasRelatedWork W2374645944 @default.
• W1967450226 hasRelatedWork W2379560017 @default.
• W1967450226 hasRelatedWork W2519565010 @default.
• W1967450226 hasRelatedWork W4248350706 @default.
• W1967450226 hasRelatedWork W1683902073 @default.
• W1967450226 hasVolume "4" @default.
• W1967450226 isParatext "false" @default.
• W1967450226 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W1967450226 magId "1967450226" @default.
• W1967450226 workType "article" @default.