The Experience of Intense Pain: Nursing Management and Interventions

摘要

Personal stories of illness give depth to otherwise clinical descriptions of diagnoses. This article offers an autobiographical narrative of complications after total knee replacement surgery. Diagnosis and nursino management of acute compartment syndrome, nociceplive and neuropathic origins of pain, pharmacologic and nursing interventions for pain, the use of prayer in illness, and compassionate caring from a Christian perspective arc discussed.