Expert Reviews on Books for Your Patients!

Pain Management-The Resource Guide for Home Health & Hospice Nurses, Carol O. Long, PhD, RN & Bonnie M. Morgan, MA, RN Carol P. Curtiss, MSN, RN-BC

This well-conceived book is written as a resource guide for home care nurses and hospice nurses who care for people with pain. It clearly achieves its purpose to provide evidence-based information and best practices for assessing and managing pain in home care and hospice. It would also be useful in any health care setting. Chapters are organized according to the nursing process, and include: Clinical Competency; Assessment; Determining diagnoses; Creating a plan of care; Implementing the plan of care; Including patient education; and Evaluating outcomes....read full review

Chronic Pain Management: Guidelines for Multidisciplinary Program Development, Michael E. Schatman & Alexandra Campbell, Editors Kevin Zacharoff, MD

This book is a compilation of chapters written by a variety of respected experts in the field of pain medicine. The comprehensive scope of the author's expertise forms a true multidisciplinary panel from around the world. Given the book's title, one might expect that this text is entirely devoted to developing a multidisciplinary pain program. However, it is actually more like three books in one....read full review

	A Child In Pain How to Help, What to Do, Leora Kuttner, PhD Kevin Zacharoff, MD
	This book was written to be a guide to both parents and clinicians with respect to understanding children in pain. The initial approach is very much behavioral focusing on how children react and express their fears and feelings of pain, as well as providing “do’s and don’ts” about the best way for parents and clinicians to respond to a child in pain....read full review

	The Chronic Pain Control Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide for Coping With and Overcoming Pain, Ellen M. Catalano, M.A. & Kimeron N. Hardin, Ph.D. Meredith Watt, M.S.W.
	This book was created for use by the chronic pain patient. It is an excellent resource that can be utilized by both the patient and his/her provider, to collaboratively work to help sufferers cope with and manage their chronic pain....read full review

	The War on Pain, Scott Fishman, M.D. and Lisa Berger Emil Chiauzzi, Ph.D.
	The book offers an excellent overview of pain pathways as well as the neurological aspects of pain. The authors review the experience and treatment of pain with common conditions, such as back pain, shingles, arthritis, and headaches. The book also includes a list of pain centers and websites in addition to a glossary for those new to the pain management field....read full review

	New pain management resources to enhance your daily practice, Springer Publishing Company Meredith Watt, M.S.W.
	Read more about three resources that could enhance your approach to care....read full review

	The Truth About Chronic Pain, Arthur Rosenfeld Knox H. Todd, MD, MPH
	In this book, Dr. Rosenfeld interviews thirty-six individuals from varying backgrounds --patients, providers, and others -- providing multiple vantage points from which to view the problem of pain. ...read full review

	Managing Pain Before it Manages You, Margaret Caudill, M.D., Ph.D. Maripat Welz-Bosna, R.N., M.S.N.
	We keep a few of these books in the clinic where I work. For newly diagnosed patients it is often suggested that they take the book home to begin reading, or the patient is asked to purchase the book from us....read full review