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Pain assessment: child.
Alyson Davies
Foundation skill for caring
Swansea University Author: Alyson Davies
Abstract
This chapter discusses the key issues in managing children and young people's pain. It analyses the children's developmentally based perceptions of pain, myths and misconceptions surrounding children and young people's pain, assessment and managment of the child's pain.
| Published in: | Foundation skill for caring |
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| Published: |
London
Palgrave Macmillan
2009
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa10849 |
| Abstract: |
This chapter discusses the key issues in managing children and young people's pain. It analyses the children's developmentally based perceptions of pain, myths and misconceptions surrounding children and young people's pain, assessment and managment of the child's pain. |
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| Keywords: |
childre and young people's pain, myths and misconceptions pain assessment tools, pain assessment, pain management |
| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |