Aspect of pain Assessment and Nursing Intervention post sternotomy (Sudan Heart Center – 2003)

Abstract

Pain as a concept is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience resulting from actual or potential tissue damage, which has individual variation with different coping mechanisms . In this respect nurses need to understand the physiologic basis of pain, with its physical and psychological consequences, hence the methods of treatment and control. Thus, they must have the knowledge and skills to assess pain and its effects on the patient, to implement pain relief strategies regardless of setting. Problem where stated according to this information