The Feeling of Pain and Loneliness John Steinbeck’s novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ addresses many topics with life lessons and themes through the main characters‚ Lennie and George. One of the themes that is most evident in the novel is the pain of loneliness. The theme of pain and loneliness can be represented in the novel by the characters Lennie‚ Crooks‚ and Curley’s wife. Lennie is a mentally challenged‚ middle-aged man who shows his pain of loneliness in Of Mice and Men through what he says in
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In the writing‚ “The Pain Scale” by Eula Biss‚ the author compares multiple things to one another. She is describing how different concepts can be used to show the confusion of the pain scale used in hospitals and doctor’s offices. Eula compares the thought of Christ the number zero. She first starts out by stating that “The concept of Christ is considerably older than the concept of zero. Both are problematic – both have their fallacies and their immaculate conceptions. But the problem of zero
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RUNNING HEAD: PAIN MANAGEMENT IN A PATIENT WITH MASSIVE BLOOD LOSS Pain Management in a Patient with Massive Blood Loss Without the Use of Analgesia and Sedation due to Severe Hypovolemia Mollie Meador NSG 441 May 7‚ 2010 Introduction A twenty three year old female was admitted to the ICU at South Central Medical Center following uterine rupture and massive blood loss. The patient was ten weeks pregnant and experienced a miscarriage as evidenced by spontaneous vaginal bleeding
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INTRODUCTION Pain is a significant adaptive mechanism. International Association for the Study of Pain‚ cited in Hazelgrove and Price (2000‚ pp. 27)‚ defines pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage‚ or described in terms of such damage”‚ however it is worth to notice‚ that pain is a very complex phenomenon and it is therefore difficult to define or identify pain interchangeably. Hazelgrove and Price (2000) classify pain into two types
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Pain Equals Success Emily Flores Ms. Hellerman English Comp. 101 February 11‚ 2013 Pain Equals Success Too much pain is never enough pain. Without pain‚ you truly cannot feel and enjoy real success. Jade Kat‚ a strong influential young woman‚ always strived for success. She knew with success it will create obstacles and tests to ensure one is absolutely ready for their dream. What she didn’t know was that those struggles were about to hit her fast. It all started when Jade finished her
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inadequate pain management; united states Limited results by full text and filtered by publication date The article: Shrestha-Ranjit‚ J.M. and Manias‚ E. (2010). Pain Assessment and management practices in children following surgery of the lower limb. Journal of Clinical Nursing‚ 19‚ 118-128. Part II Article Critique Children have been under treated for pain due to many misconceptions about pediatric pain management. These misconceptions include: children do not feel pain or suffer
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After being subject to torture in the Ministry of Love‚ Winston emphasizes the power of physical pain by claiming‚ “Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes” (Orwell 197). The entire purpose behind the Party’s psychological and physical torture is not to kill Party members‚ but to reform them. As O’Brien puts it‚ “We do not merely destroy our
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Nursing Diagnosis 1. Acute pain R/T: inflammation and obstruction of the gallbladder AEB: patient verbalizes abdominal pain of 7/10‚ grimaces‚ rubs his stomach‚ BP 158/79‚ T990F 2. Deficient knowledge R/T: lack of knowledge about the importance of incentive spirometer AEB: patient says that he does not know how to use and needs to know more about its importance. 3. Risk for deficient fluid volume R/T: restricted intake 4. Risk for imbalanced nutrition less than body requirement R/T: impaired
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back pain sucks. There are a few things you can do to reduce the pain: 1. Exercise Exercising while you are in pain might be the last thing you want to do. However it is documented that moderate exercise eases chronic back pain. Workouts involving yoga and Pilates strengthen core muscles and gently stretch the taut knotted muscles that can contribute to back pain. They also help with spinal realignment and increase joint mobility. 2. Adjust Your Posture Incorrect posture can cause back pain‚ and
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line insertion and pain management. Half of the health care providers (50%) rated themselves “good” at IV line insertion skill. The majority (95%) reported that continuous professional development on comforting strategies for pediatric pain management was necessary (Table 3). 3.3 Perceived barriers to implementing comforting strategies for pain management during IV line insertion procedure A number of barriers that affected implementation of comforting strategies for pain management during IV
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