Inappropriate use of medications results in an unnecessarily high morbidity and mortality. This proposal describes plans to develop the first of what is conceived to be a series of web-based interactive programs designed to enable nurses and nursing students to gain skills necessary for the pharmacological management of patients. The first program will involve pain management. Pain is a problem of great concern to health care consumers, and it is generally treated by the administration of drugs. Using this program, students will work with scenarios of acute and chronic pain utilizing critical thinking skills to assess pain, plan and implement drug therapy, and evaluate the patient's response to that therapy.
Screen shots from a future case are available below.
The female patient in the screen shots is suffering from migraines. The image to the left is a screen shot of the current case, Mr. Sanchez.