Courses - Health Care

Pain Management

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Pain Management Courses

Pharmacology  

In order to carry out the new roles in drug therapy, the nurse must understand drugs. The greater your knowledge of how drugs act, and how they are used in clinical practice, the more you will be able to anticipate drug responses in your patients. This course will aim to make you more effective in counselling your patients on their drug therapy, and in optimising their drug administration and pain control for maximum benefit.

Course Outlines

The Application of Pharmacology to Nursing
The importance of pharmacology
Legislation and professional guidelines
The language of pharmacology
Desirable properties of drugs used to treat human illness
The formulation of drugs as medicines
Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics
The Administration, Absorption, Distribution and Elimination of Drugs
Routes for administering drugs
Key physiological factors that influence drug response
The effect of drug interactions on patient response
Pharmacokinetics and Drug Action
Pharmacokinetics
Factors influencing drug bioavailability
Drug distribution
The principles of drug metabolism
The elimination of drugs and their metabolites
Measuring the distribution of drugs in the body
How Drugs Act
Mechanisms for drug action
Chemical messengers as a method of cell communication
Revision of chemical transmission in the autonomic nervous system
Classifying receptors
 

Pharmacology and Pain Control  

In this course we look at the development of chronic pain.
We start by looking at how different types of pain are transmitted: in particular, we look at the role played by peripheral sensitisation and hyperalgesia in transmitting chronic pain.
We then consider the role of a range of chemical mediators in transmitting pain. Next, we look at drugs that relieve pain by sensitising the nociceptors.
Finally, we consider the issue of central sensitisation to pain, and consider the problem of peripheral nerve damage.

Course Outlines
1: Transmission of types of pain
2: Chemical mediators and the sensitisation of nociceptors
3: Drugs that relieve chronic pain by influencing nociceptors
4: Central sensitisation
5: Neuropathic pain
Tutor-marked Question Paper
 

The Human Experience of Pain 

In this course we discuss the human experience of pain.
We review the history of pain, distinguish between acute and chronic pain, and discuss the modulation of pain.

Course Outlines
1: The history of pain
2: Types of pain
3: Modulation of pain
Tutor-marked Question Paper
 

The Pharmacology of Pain Control

In this course we look at the pharmacology of pain control.
We start by defining the most important terms used in the course, then go on to discuss an important group of drugs - the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs.
We consider the mechanisms of NSAIDs, their therapeutic uses and some of the side effects which can be associated with them. Next, we discuss the use of opioids: how they work, their pharmacological properties, their effects, their therapeutic use and the problems of tolerance, withdrawal and dependence.
Finally, we consider the use of some other drugs to relieve pain.
Course Outlines

1: Definitions
2: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
3: The use of NSAIDs in pain control
4: Opioid analgesics
5: Therapeutic action of opioids
6: Tolerance, dependence and withdrawal symptoms
7: Other drugs used in the treatment of pain
Tutor-marked Question Paper
 

The Development of Chronic Pain

In this course we look at the development of chronic pain.
We start by looking at how different types of pain are transmitted: in particular, we look at the role played by peripheral sensitisation and hyperalgesia in transmitting chronic pain.
We then consider the role of a range of chemical mediators in transmitting pain. Next, we look at drugs that relieve pain by sensitising the nociceptors.
Finally, we consider the issue of central sensitisation to pain, and consider the problem of peripheral nerve damage.

Course Outlines

1: Transmission of types of pain
2: Chemical mediators and the sensitisation of nociceptors
3: Drugs that relieve chronic pain by influencing nociceptors
4: Central sensitisation
5: Neuropathic pain
Tutor-marked Question Paper

The Practice Of Pain Management

In this course we look at the management of pain.
We start by considering the World Health Organisation analgesic ladder of pain management.
We then look in more detail at the use of drugs in pain management and we consider drug dependence and "the pain habit".

Course Outlines
1: Relief of pain
2: Choice of drugs
3: Drug dependence
4. The pain habit
Further reading
Tutor-marked Question Paper

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