Background
McCaffery, Margo was born on September 29, 1938 in Corsicana, Texas, United States. Daughter of Marley William and Mary Katharine (Adams) Smith.
(This is the UK version of McCaffery's "Pain: Clinical Man...)
This is the UK version of McCaffery's "Pain: Clinical Manual for Nursing Practice", which is intended to be totally relevant to UK practice. The book introduces the complex and multifaceted problem of pain control with which nurses are daily confronted. The opening chapters related to the appropriate anatomy, physiology and development of pain theories. The book's adaptation also includes the assessment, measurement and observation of pain, as well as current practices employed in the UK. Taking the "whole person" approach, it covers methods of pain relief provision, from the use of simple relaxation/manipulation techniques, to drugs and their applications.
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(PAIN: CLINICAL MANUAL provides practical tools and guidel...)
PAIN: CLINICAL MANUAL provides practical tools and guidelines for treating patients' pain in all clinical settings and age groups. This useful resource features ready-to-use, reproducible pain rating scales, guidelines, forms, and patient medication information handouts. Comprehensive pharmacologic chapters discuss the three groups of analgesics, dose titration, drug combinations, routes of administration, and prevention of side effects. Additionally, it includes pain rating scales in over 20 languages and quick guides with illustrations of selected pain problems. PAIN: CLINICAL MANUAL is a valuable resource for anyone who cares for patients with pain. * Provides ready-to-use forms and recommendations for pain care committees to assist health care facilities to prepare for JCAHO inspections. * Includes two FREE pocket-size, laminated cards: equianalgesic charts to assist clinicians with dose calculations when changing routes of administration or analgesics, and dosing guides to commonly used adjuvants and nonopioids. * Includes FREE access to Mosby's PAIN WEBSITE. * The most clinically useful book ever published on pain, written by authorities who helped establish the pain management movement. * Includes 11 new chapters and five expanded and updated chapters to provide the most accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive pain management information. * Includes icons to alert the reader to important, need-to-know information, such as pediatric content, patient examples, and reproducible material. * Features over 200 boxes and tables to help quickly locate key information and apply complex concepts at the bedside. * Presents a unique, multidisciplinary perspective. * Provides ready-to-use, practical, proven, and reproducible tools, pain assessment and documentation forms, and guides to analgesic use. * Contains patient information handouts on analgesics and nondrug methods of pain relief to educate the patient/family/caregiver about the patient's specific pain management. * Includes reproducible key policies, procedures, and protocols to assist the clinician in implementing patient focused interdisciplinary pain management. * Presents pharmacology content in four chapters - the three analgesic groups and an overview of how to combine them - to provide a readily understandable reference and practical resource. * Includes quick guides with illustrations of selected pain problems, such as pain related to sickle cell disease, peripheral neuropathy, and fibromyalgia. * Contains pain rating scales in over 20 languages to enhance patient/clinician communication in culturally diverse populations.
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lecturer pain consultant author
McCaffery, Margo was born on September 29, 1938 in Corsicana, Texas, United States. Daughter of Marley William and Mary Katharine (Adams) Smith.
Bachelor of science in nursing, Baylor University, 1959. Master of Science in Nursing, Vanderbilt University, 1961.
Assistant professor pediatric nursing, University of California at Los Angeles, 1962-1970; pain management consultant, lecturer,, Los Angeles, since 1970; clinician, manager pain management unit, Centinela Hospital Medical Center, Inglewood, California, 1983-1984. Member of advisory board Pharmacologic Aspects Nursing, Nursing Journal, Clinical Journal Pain, Journal Pain and Sympton Management. Member expert advising committee on cancer pain relief World Health Organization, since 1989.
(This is the UK version of McCaffery's "Pain: Clinical Man...)
(PAIN: CLINICAL MANUAL provides practical tools and guidel...)
Member American Nurses Association, American Academy Nursing, American Pain Society, International Association for Study Pain (founding), Onoclogy Nursing Society, Sigma Theta Tau (research grantee).
Married John Richard Brewer, July 19, 1986. 1 child, Melissa Ruth.