Fundamentals of chronic pain in children and young people

CPD modules

Fundamentals of chronic pain in children and young people: multimodal treatment

RCN accredited
Peer reviewed
Certificate

Learning time: 02 hrs
Last updated: 2016
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This learning module looks at assessing chronic pain in childhood as well as pharmacological and psychological interventions to manage it. It discusses self-help programmes and strategies to aid sleep and help a child at school manage their long-term pain, and also how the severe physical and psychological consequences are not always recognised by nurses and other healthcare professionals.

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Paula A Forgeron, Assistant professor, School of nursing, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Jennifer Stinson, Mary Jo Haddad nursing chair in child health, Peter Lougheed CIHR new investigator scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Nurse practitioner, Chronic Pain Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Associate professor, Lawrence S Bloomberg, faculty of nursing, University of Toronto, Canada.