Pain Management in the Cancer Survivor

Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Inc..

OBJECTIVES: To describe assessment and interdisciplinary management of pain in the cancer survivor over the continuum of cancer care.

DATA SOURCES: Review of the literature and treatment standards.

CONCLUSION: Pain remains a primary concern throughout the cancer trajectory across all age groups and diagnoses, emphasizing the need to integrate pain assessment and management across the continuum of cancer survivorship and across care settings. Types of pain, pain patterns, assessment of cancer pain in cancer survivors, current strategies and challenges for management, and effective communication and documentation of the process are described. Communication between and among health care clinicians in a way that effectively articulates the individual patient experience, including documentation in the electronic medical record, requires consistent workflows and terminology. The opioid crisis increases the urgency in effective strategies for interdisciplinary pain assessment and management.

IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Oncology clinicians must be able to adequately assess pain, track pain over time, understand and implement a cadre of strategies to manage pain, and effectively pursue any suspicious pain patterns that may indicate recurrence or progression of cancer or other underlying etiologies. The oncology nurse is at the core of patient-clinician communication, critical to effectively describing pain as experienced by the individual patient and continues to play a key role in maintaining consistency of message that is necessary to manage pain over the continuum of cancer survivorship.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

Seminars in oncology nursing - 35(2019), 3 vom: 02. Juni, Seite 284-290

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kurtin, Sandra [VerfasserIn]
Fuoto, Abby [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Assessment
Cancer survivor
Continuum
Journal Article
Online tools
Pain
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 05.05.2020

Date Revised 05.05.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.soncn.2019.04.010

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM296729329