Pharmacologic Pain Relief

The nurse plays a major role in providing pharmacologic pain relief. Discuss the five rights of medication administration as well as the additional three rights mentioned in the text that are particularly important in relation to pain medication. Discuss the common fallacies and myths about pain in children and how these myths influence inadequate pain management for infants and children. Discuss the important roles that parents play in reporting any changes in their child and review helpful questions to elicit information from the parents for assessing their child’s pain.