Chronic wounds pain management in elderly people
Shu, Xiaoning; Zhu, Huayun (2019)
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019103020465
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019103020465
Tiivistelmä
Chronic wound is one of the most common health issues in elderly people and the pain related chronic wounds results in a huge burden to patients, healthcare givers and health care system. Inappropriate pain reduction methods could either make the patients suffering more or lead to needless medical resource waste. Hence, a set of effective chronic wound pain interventions is needed.
In this thesis, the aim is to find out what risk factors contribute to increase chronic wounds pain and to figure out what kinds of methods can be used by nurses. The purpose of the thesis is to improve the nursing skills of chronic wound pain management for elderly people.
The conducted method was a literature review. 21 researched articles were analyzied in this thesis. A qualitative analyzing method was undertaken in the analysis.
The findings revealed that there are four main risky factors increasing chronic wound pain: dressing change, infection, debridement and psychological factors. The interventions about chronic wound pain management appear in this thesis including scientific application of analgesic, improvement of dressing change skills and psychological interventions electrical nerve stimulation had shown positive outcomes in pain reduction.
In this thesis, the aim is to find out what risk factors contribute to increase chronic wounds pain and to figure out what kinds of methods can be used by nurses. The purpose of the thesis is to improve the nursing skills of chronic wound pain management for elderly people.
The conducted method was a literature review. 21 researched articles were analyzied in this thesis. A qualitative analyzing method was undertaken in the analysis.
The findings revealed that there are four main risky factors increasing chronic wound pain: dressing change, infection, debridement and psychological factors. The interventions about chronic wound pain management appear in this thesis including scientific application of analgesic, improvement of dressing change skills and psychological interventions electrical nerve stimulation had shown positive outcomes in pain reduction.