Universal pain assessment tool

Item Overview

Title

Universal pain assessment tool

Date Created

[between 2005 and 2010]

Date

2005/2010

Language

English
Amharic

Collection

Ethiopian Posters

Program

International Digital Ephemera Project

Notes

Description

Six faces ranging from happy yellow to gradually crying red are paired with verbal descriptions and activity tolerance levels for people to communicate with patients having problems expressing pain levels. Numerical scale goes from 1 to 10.
Readable logos on the bottom of the poster: Ministry of Health; Department of Health & Human Services, USA; Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Technical Support for the Ethiopian HIV/AIDS Art Initiative (TSEHAI), Johns Hopkins University

Caption

Verbal description scale; Wong-Baker Facial Grimace scale; Activity tolerance scale.
This pain assessment tool is intended to help patient care providers assess pain according to individual patient needs. Explain and use 0-10 scale for patient self-assessment. Use the faces or behavioral observations to interpret expressed pain when patient cannot communicate his/her pain intensity.

Physical Description

Extent

1 poster : col.

Keywords

Genre

posters

Location

Ethiopia

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Pain--Classification