What books would you recommend for the nurses in you office to read?

[Josh L.Ac.]

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As a pain management physician, how much of a background in pain management do you think a nurse that works in your office should know, and what books (if any) would you recommend that they read?



From the nursing side, the following two books have been recommended to me (although they are not nursing texts):

Postoperative Pain Management: An Evidence-Based Guide to Practice by George Shorten, Daniel Carr, Dominic Harmon, Margarita M. Puig, John Browne

Pain Medicine: The Requisites (Requisites in Anesthesia) By Stephen Abram



Thoughts?

 

[Josh L.Ac.]

Seriously, no comments at all?




Are you afraid that the nurses wouldn't understand the material...or that in a few years, they would be lobbying the legislature to do the procedures listed in the material?

 

[teri78]

I can't comment on how much background you need to know, but the book by stephen abram is very good.

 

[Mister Mxyzptlk]

Kama Sutra, with a pop quiz every few days.

 

[Ligament]

Hi Josh,

I'd like any nurse working in my office to have read up on pain medicine. There is a a very good book written by Nurse McCaffery that I personally own and like very much. It is very practical, particularly for inpatient pain management. For example, when I was starting fellowship I had a bunch of practical questions on IV PCAs and epidural PCAs. Looked through most of the standard pain textbooks with a lot of theory but no practical advice. Then I found Nurse McCaffery's book and found very practical and safe advice.

It has things nurses focus on as well, such as patient education and intake forms, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Pain-Clinical...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196882387&sr=8-1

Anyway, I'd recommend that book as well as the MGH Handbook of Pain for more advanced reading and also to provide some basics on interventional pain procedures so the nurse could understand what the pain doc is doing in the fluoro room.

 

[Tenesma]

let's see

most of the nurses like PEOPLE but a few of them like US Weekly and Entertainment Today...

 

[Xclamp]

Kama Sutra, with a pop quiz every few days.

let's see

most of the nurses like PEOPLE but a few of them like US Weekly and Entertainment Today...

that's awesome, laughed out loud twice in a minute.

thanks

 

[Josh L.Ac.]

I can't comment on how much background you need to know, but the book by stephen abram is very good.

Thanks for the reply. Glad to hear that the Abram book is recommended because it has been my favorite so far.

Kama Sutra, with a pop quiz every few days.

Already got several versions of the book, including one for married couples.


Great read. Doubt I could put it to use at work though...or should put it to use at work.

Hi Josh,

I'd like any nurse working in my office to have read up on pain medicine. There is a a very good book written by Nurse McCaffery that I personally own and like very much. It is very practical, particularly for inpatient pain management. For example, when I was starting fellowship I had a bunch of practical questions on IV PCAs and epidural PCAs. Looked through most of the standard pain textbooks with a lot of theory but no practical advice. Then I found Nurse McCaffery's book and found very practical and safe advice.

It has things nurses focus on as well, such as patient education and intake forms, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Pain-Clinical...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196882387&sr=8-1

Anyway, I'd recommend that book as well as the MGH Handbook of Pain for more advanced reading and also to provide some basics on interventional pain procedures so the nurse could understand what the pain doc is doing in the fluoro room.

Thanks, I'll check those out.


Makes me feel like the Amazon Prime promotion is actually worth the price.

let's see

most of the nurses like PEOPLE but a few of them like US Weekly and Entertainment Today...

Just as long as they don't talk about the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy...

 

[spinal]

I recommend nothing for your nursing staff.
You may think it is funny but it is not. They see you practice medicine, you give them books to read and what do they do next --- go to their nursing board and tell them that they can practice pain medicine now-- and then you have to fight the nursing board with layers to tell them that it is outside of the scope of practice.
This is the mistake that was done with CRNA and that is the fact. CRNA are spreading like cancer because of good intentions of the doctors to educate other midlevel providers. That is all that it takes and a CEO that wants to save money in the hospital will hire your nurse over you. The CEO's don't care about the level of care the patient gets. All they care about is if they made any money from the patient or their insurance.
Wake up!