Pain Management Patient Education Resource Manual

Discover the most powerful and cost-effective tool you can use to educate patients on managing pain! This outstanding collection of patient education and reference material supplies more thank 80 clear, easy-to-follow patient handouts with specific guidelines on the most commonly needed pain management topics including:  Understanding Pain  Assessment of Pain  Acute Pain  Cancer Pain  Chronic Pain  Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents  Pain in the Elderly Housed in a convenient, loose-leaf binder and organized by easy-access tabs, you'll find guidelines instructions, checklists, exercises and other tools to facilitate teaching for the average reader, the Spanish-speaking reader, as well as the low-literacy reader. Pain Management Patient Education Resource Manual, 2E combines the ideas, strategies and materials from physicians, nurses, physical therapists and other healthcare professionals into an excellent source of day-to-day reference information. There's a separate chapter on teaching strategies and creating effective patient education materials, patient interview questionnaires, guided imagery scripts, and a comprehensive list of Resources supplying contact information for organizations, advice, support, reading, audiotapes, and videotapes. For Orders and Inquiries, please call: 1-888-427-5800.

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The new edition continues to offer a comprehensive collection of patient education and reference material for practitioners who counsel patients and caregivers about pain management. The manual consists of at least 80% large-print, ready-to-use patient education handouts. Patient education sheets are included for the average reader as well as low literacy reader. In addition to contributed materials, the manual includes Aspen's low-literacy handouts for key topics in each chapter, written in both 3rd and 6th grade reading levels, in English and Spanish, in hard copy and on CD-ROM. CD-ROM copies may be modified by the user to change the format, add a logo, art, or contact information, and to add text. Practitioner reference materials and forms, a chapter on effective patient education, and a resource listing are included. Supplemented annually, including the CD.