Pain Management

Uncontrolled pain is one of the more frequent reasons why people seek assistance from a healthcare professional because it can seriously impact daily activities and medical condition. Patients can feel depressed and upset. Family members may feel helpless and distressed when they cannot help relieve a patient’s pain. Some of the barriers to pain management by home care nurses include the lack of knowledge about pain management, addiction, and side effects, inadequate assessment and reporting tools and the lack of communication with physician and nurse-physician relationship.

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Healthanywhere products can help improve care for patients with pain through the following:

Nurse Education: Delivery of multi-media educational content to nurse stations.

Patient Screening: At least once a day screening of persons at risk of pain, using e-visits.

Pain Assessment: Suitable tools for the nurse, patient and/or family member including Numeric Rating Scale, Verbal Scale, and Faces Scale, etc.

Pain Management: Patient0-specific treatment plans for pain relief, including medication management, scheduled logging and exercise programs.

Monitoring: Educate and monitor patients using questionnaires on the side effects of treatment or other related medical procedures. Provide advice on dietary adjustments and education to alleviate myths.

Sharing patient data and status: Authorized access to patient pain assessment reports, pain management plan, medication regimen, and pain logs by physicians, pharmacist, nurse specialist, case managers, and family members.