Chapter 3: Assessment and management of pain in children and young people
1. Research examining how well pain is currently managed indicates that:
- Practices adhere to current best practice guidelines
- Nurses assess children’s pain appropriately
- Non-drug methods of pain relief are routinely used
- Practices do not conform to current best practice guidelines
2. To manage pain effectively the following activities need to be undertaken in this order:
- Assessment, planning, implementation, re-evaluation
- Implementation, assessment, planning, re-evaluation
- Planning, assessment, implementation, re-evaluation
- Re-evaluation, assessment, implementation, planning
3. Multimodal analgesia means:
- Giving one analgesic drug at a time
- Giving a mixture of oral and IV analgesic drugs at the same time
- Administering two analgesics from the same family of drugs
- Administering two or more analgesic drugs with different mechanisms of action together
4. Which of the following is NOT a common side-effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs?
- Reduced platelet aggregation
- Respiratory depression
- Disrupted renal blood flow
- Gastric irritation