Children's Response to Acute Pain: A Developmental Approach

1 October 1992

journal article
review article
Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Vol. 4 (4) , 139-142
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7599.1992.tb00827.x

Abstract

Pain in children is a major concern of health care providers. To adequately relieve children's pain, nurses and other health care providers must be able to determine when children of all developmental stages are experiencing pain. The purpose of this article is to review what is known about children's response to acute pain.

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