Assessment of pain is crucial for planning and implementing effective pain management strategies. Nurse play an important role in pain assessment and Management. Experience of pain is totally subjective. And so the assessment tool for patient mainly focus on subjective data along with potential physical responses to pain(objective data). Pain assessment in infants and children are challenging because of limited language development as well as comprehension and the perception of pain expressed the contextually. Main features to be considered while assessing pain are pain history, location of pain, intensity and patients perception and understanding about the pain. There are several tools to assess pain like Wong Baker faces pain scale that rates pain based on the facial expression of the patient, numerical rating scale which grade pain from 0 to 10 based on the patient's perception of pain, FLACC scale which is primarily used for children that focus on facial expression, leg movements, activity consolability of the child.
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