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Course Credit: 3 Semester Hours
Required Text:
McCaffery, M., and Pasero, C., Pain Clinical Manual, Second Edition, CV Mosby 1999. No copies of this book have been ordered – you are responsible for getting your own copy of the text. You can get it from the publisher, Amazon, Barnes and Noble…just get one. It is essential you have one since exam material comes from the book as well as from lecture.
Required Readings:
Required readings are on the course CD-ROMs and will be available for download from the course Web site. There may be additional readings that will available for download off of the course Web site.
The course provides advanced content in the area of pain management for undergraduate and graduate nursing students. Content will focus on assessment, pharmacological and non-pharmacological nursing interventions and evaluation of acute, chronic benign and chronic malignant pain. There is no clinical component to this course.
Course Objectives - At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- Explain the Theory of Pain–How Pain Works.
- Recognize the differences between acute, chronic nonmalignant and malignant pain and the management challenges they represent.
- Describe the differences in pain assessment and management in children, adults and the elderly.
- Describe various assessment tools used for pain.
- Identify appropriate nursing goals for pain relief.
- Identify pharmacologic analgesic agents, adjuvant drugs used in pain management and the new delivery systems for administering analgesic agents.
- Describe the situations where transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulators would be an effective pain relief method.
- Identify how the technique of acupressure or stimulation of acupuncture points by heat or cold can be used in specific client situations to relieve pain and anxiety.
Class Format: The class is presented using the following media and methods:
These are on the course Web site and on the CD-ROMs (mailed with confirmation of official enrollment):
- Audio Lectures
- Printable lecture notes to go with the audio's
- Videos – 3 very short video clips
- Required reading articles in Acrobat file format
- Image Scrapbooks in Acrobat format
- Online discussions
- Homepages
- Three Exams
ICON Course Management Software
This course is offered via ICON (Iowa Courses ONline). To access the course Web site:
- Start at http://icon.uiowa.edu. Note
there’s no www in the address.
- Look for the "Log in to ICON" area and enter your Hawk ID and password. See http://hawkid.uiowa.edu/ if you have questions about your Hawk
ID and password.
- Click the Login button.
- When you reach your ICON welcome page, look for the section called "My ICON Courses." This course will appear in the subsection for this semester. Note: you may need to click on the plus (+) sign to open the subsection. Then just click on this course name to enter the course site.
If you are registered for the course, the system will automatically enroll you into the course Web site. This automatic registration typically begins about a week before classes begin. If you are anxious to get going with the course you can use your CD-ROMs and start listening to lectures.
As an enrolled student, you are provided with a university e-mail account. Activate this account as soon as possible. You will receive instructions about how to do this from the Center for Credit Programs. Instructions for this and a number of other important procedures are on their Web site at http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/ccp/de/derules/
ALL COMMUNICATION regarding this course is done through the site and your @uiowa.edu email address.
Homepage:
Every student in the course will be required to complete
a homepage on the course Web site. Creating a homepage is
simple and instructions are included in the Content area of the Web site. This will help create our online community.
You will be required to tell: 1) who you are, 2) are you a full time or part time student, 3) already an RN, 4) why you're taking the course 5) what's your favorite thing to do if you had spare time (yea I know BIG joke), 6) what's the best part of being a nurse and the worst, 7) what you'd do if you won the $80 million dollar jackpot in the lottery!
Discussion:
Every student in the course will be required
to participate in the online discussions. These discussions can be
very fascinating particularly because people have time to think about
what they want to say and can really “talk” to each other.
Previous students and I agree this is absolutely one of the best parts
of the course. Discussions will be open for an average of 2-3 weeks
and then they will be closed.
You will participate in every discussion I post – you will not be graded on what you say but you will participate . By doing discussions this way it has provided for a very rich part of the course – people say what they think, aren’t afraid to ask a question no matter how simplistic they think it may be and the discussions have turned out wonderful.
Tests:
There will be 3 tests that are primarily short
answer and open notes. Tests will be available for download approximately
2 weeks before they are due. You are on your honor to do the exams
on your own.
Exam 1
- will cover content included in Pain Theory,
Law, The World, JCAHO, Acute, Chronic, and Cancer Pain, and the Assessment
Unit.
Exam 2
- will cover Pharmacologic
Pain Relief
Exam 3
- will include NonPharm and
any other content covered in the course
Registration:
This course is offered through the Center for Credit Programs. To register, contact them by phone at 1-800-272-6430 or locally 319-335-2575. Registration is also available through an online registration form at http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/ccp/de/regform.htm