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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
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2009
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa10849
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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.
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