Nursing home care providers were able to more smoothly adopt evidence-based pain management guidelines when they had the support of pain management champions, a study in Sweden has found. A pain ...

Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN, internationally recognized expert in pain and symptom management research and professor emerita at UC San Francisco’s School of Nursing, will be named a Living ...

Chronic pain is often seen as only a physical condition, but it can extend well beyond the body. Those living with long-term pain frequently report difficulties with memory, attention and other ...

Imagine this: You are a nurse practitioner in a nursing home. A staff member asks you to assess Mrs. B, a 90-year-old with mild dementia who is “not acting like herself.” When you check on Mrs. B, she ...

Nurse anesthetists are medical professionals who provide anesthesia, treatments that keep people from feeling pain during surgery or other medical procedures. They are also known as nurse ...