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Pain: Clinical Manual for Nursing Practice

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McCaffery has hit a home run with this manual for the relief of pain in all patients. It is methodical, concise and easy to read. There are numerous examples of documentation which can be used IMMEDIATELY in the clinical setting. The author has also provided strategies to assist in adopting these changes in home care, hospice, long term care, oncology, and acute care settings.

As a pain management consultant, this is the one book I consider MANDATORY for all health care providers.

This book is old by textbook standards (written in 1999), but is still relevant. It explores attitudes towards perceptions of pain and how pain is interpreted. There are many references to research, a lot of it done by the authors. I have found it very useful in my class.

I have one complaint. I asked that it be shipped as a college text, using the 2-day shipment. The shipment took 12 days and arrived five days after my class started; two days after the first assignment was due.