Documentation should include all interventions taken. Resources have been identified in the policy. Finally, some patients do not take or request pain medications when needed. Possible reasons include fear and misunderstanding about opioid analgesia, especially related to addiction and physical dependence. For more information on pain management issues, you may contact any of the Los Angeles Medical Center Pain Advisory Committee members.
Pain exists whenever the patient says it does.
The patient, not the nurse, is the expert on the patient's pain. Pain behaviors or expressions of pain are a very reliable indicator of the presence of pain in any patient. No pain scale is used 5. All of the above 6. All of the above 8.