You, the person experiencing it, define it and translate it. Margo McCaffery, a highly recognized nurse and pioneer pain educator, defined pain as “…whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he/she says it does.” This is a very scientific and technical way to talk about pain, because it focuses on tissue injury. Harold Merskey, a professor of psychiatry, defines pain as “…an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.” It is now a widely accepted principal that pain is best understood as having both a physical and an emotional component. Mention some of the scientific advances in the field of pain management.Discuss the clinical differences between acute and chronic pain.It’s important that when one clinician talks to another we share a similar language – this helps us to communicate about pain. Review some terminology related to pain.Yet, for many people, pain is a persistent, daily challenge to cope with. Through research, clinical study and patient experiences, a wealth of information has emerged which has helped us understand the pain process, how it progresses and what treatments might work best to relieve it. This is both a challenging and exciting time to be working in the field of pain management.
While pain is a mechanism in which the body tells us that something is wrong, it can often be a useful way to measure healing. It can be a complex problem because it embraces physical, emotional and social components. Pain is conceptualized to be a response to an injury or a marker of illness.
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