TITLE:
Pain Management in Pediatric Nursing
AUTHORS:
Senay Cetinkaya
KEYWORDS:
Child, Nursing, Non-Pharmacological Methods. Pain, Pain Score, Pain Management
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Pediatrics,
Vol.13 No.3,
May
15,
2023
ABSTRACT: Children
often experience pain in different stage of life. After birth, newborns are
exposed to many painful attempts and their anxiety levels increase with it.
These painful attempts lead to metabolic or physiological problems in newborns.
Excessive protein expenditure when exposed to pain for a long time, electrolyte inhalation, weakening of the immune
system. Even repetitive painful procedures increase mortality and
morbidity. Children experience pain due to acute onset diseases such as otitis
media or pharyngitis and also in different medical interventions such
vaccination, blood transfusion, vascular access, dressing change, lumber
punching, or sickle cell anemia. Appropriate assessment scales should be used to treat pain
effectively and adequately.
Pharmacological treatment as well as non-pharmacological treatment methods has been found to be effective in the treatment of pain. Non-pharmacological methods allow your body to release natural
endorphins and help to lift the pain to a minimum level or completely. In this
study, current approaches and studies about pain in children will be presented.
Non-pharmacological methods will be examined in more detail. Every child has
right to live a painless life. It is one of the main purposes of nursing care
to relieve children’s pain and improve their life quality.