The document discusses vital signs and pain assessment. It covers temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation as vital signs. It then discusses pain assessment, noting that pain is a subjective experience. It describes several pain scales commonly used in clinical settings, including the numerical pain scale, faces pain scale, and characteristics used to describe pain like location, onset, duration and quality.
4. Numerical Pain Scale If 0 out of 10 is completely pain free, and 10 out of 10 is the worst pain you can imagine, what score would you give your pain now?
6. Faces Pain Scale The Faces Pain Scale Revised (Hicks, von Baeyer, Spafford, van Korlaar, Goodenough: Pain (2001); 93(2): 173-83. Used with permission from IASP速. See www.painsourcebook.ca for instructions on use of the scale) as cited in Crisp & Taylor 2009: Figure 42-8
7. Faces Pain Scale From Wong, D.L., Hockenberry-Eaton, M., Wilson, D., Winkelstein, M.L., Ahmann, E., DiVito-Thomas, P.A. (1999) Whaley and Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children, ed. 6, St. Louis, 1999, p. 2040. Copyrighted by Mosby, Inc Accessed via www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/youngpeople/page7