Nursing Diagnosis Interventions for Pain (acute / chronic) - Vertigo / Headache

Vertigo is a subtype of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary. The symptoms are due to an asymmetric dysfunction of the vestibular system in the inner ear.It is often associated with nausea and vomiting as well as a balance disorder, causing difficulties standing or walking. There are three types of vertigo:
Objective− the patient has the sensation that objects in the environment are moving;
Subjective− patient feels as if he or she is moving; Pseudovertigo− intensive sensation of rotation inside the patient's head.







A headache or cephalalgia is pain anywhere in the region of the head or neck. It can be a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head and neck. The brain tissue itself is not sensitive to pain because it lacks pain receptors. Rather, the pain is caused by disturbance of the pain-sensitive structures around the brain. Nine areas of the head and neck have these pain-sensitive structures, which are the cranium (the periosteum of the skull), muscles, nerves, arteries and veins, subcutaneous tissues, eyes, ears, sinuses and mucous membranes.





Nursing Diagnosis for Vertigo / Headache: Pain (acute / chronic)

related to

• stress and tension,
• irritation / pressure nerves,
• vasospasm,
• increased intracranial

characterized by:

• states that pain is influenced by factors such as:
• position changes, changes in sleep patterns, anxiety.

Purpose: Pain is lost or reduced

Expected outcomes are:

• clients to express pain is reduced
• normal vital signs
• patient was calm and relaxed.

Nursing Interventions pain (acute / chronic) - Vertigo / Headache:

1. Monitor vital signs, the intensity / pain scale.
Rationale: Identify and facilitate the conduct of nursing actions.

2. Encourage clients to rest in bed.
Rational: the break to reduce the intensity of pain.

3. Adjust the position of the patient as comfortable as possible
Rational: the right position to reduce stress and prevent muscle tension and reduce pain.

4. Teach relaxation and deep breathing techniques
Rational: relaxation to reduce tension and create a feeling more comfortable.

5. Collaboration for providing analgesic.
Rational: useful analgesic to relieve pain so that patients become more comfortable.

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Acute Pain - Chronic Pain Nursing Diagnosis

There are many things that can cause a person pain and different people have different tolerances for types of pain. Someone with a low tolerance may find many things very painful. Someone with a higher tolerance may be able to withstand these things.

There is the pain of a headache and there are many kinds of headaches that produce vaious degrees and quality of pain. There is organ pain when something is wrong inside and muscle pain when they are pushed beyond the norm either by exercise or emergency. Pain can be mild and a mere annoyance, or brutal and debilitating.

Acute pain is a pain that is recent, a sudden onset of pain, something that has been caused by an accident, a fall, an injury, or something of that nature. Acute pain is usually quite strong and ranges from a sharp nerve pain or shooting pain, to a very strong ache. It can be made worse by certain movements and may restrict you from doing things.

These are some of the obvious things that cause instant pain but sometimes acute pain seems to appear out of nowhere. For example, the sudden onset of lower back pain or neck spasms.

Generally the majority of acute pain conditions are caused by muscle spasms. Sure they may feel like they are incredibly painful because when muscles spasm they can also entrap and irritate nerves. Acute pain conditions are generally easy to treat and do not leave any residual problems. Massage therapy is the treatment used to alleviate muscular problems. Remedial massage acts by stimulating the muscles that are in spasm so they release. By stimulating the right muscles the body will then correct itself, releasing the muscle spasms and bringing your body back to normal.


Nursing Diagnosis for Pain – Acute

Acute Pain is Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage (International Association for the Study of Pain); sudden or slow onset of any intensity from mild to severe with an anticipated or predictable end and a duration of less than 6 months
Pain is a highly subjective state in which a variety of unpleasant sensations and a wide range of distressing factors may be experienced by the sufferer. Pain may be a symptom of injury or illness. Pain may also arise from emotional, psychological, cultural, or spiritual distress. Pain can be very difficult to explain, because it is unique to the individual; pain should be accepted as described by the sufferer. Pain assessment can be challenging, especially in elderly patients, where cognitive impairment and sensory-perceptual deficits are more common.

Nursing Diagnosis for Pain – Chronic

Chronic Pain is Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage (International Association for the Study of Pain); sudden or slow onset of intensity from mild to severe; constant or recurring without an anticipated or predictable end and a duration of greater than 6 months.
Chronic pain may be classified as chronic malignant pain or chronic nonmalignant pain. In the former, the pain is associated with a specific cause such as cancer. With chronic nonmalignant pain the original tissue injury is not progressive or has been healed. Identifying an organic cause for this type of chronic pain is more difficult.

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