The best 100% online university program to update you on the most effective guidelines to address pain from the role of Nursing"

According to statistics, pain is the second cause of consultation in Primary Care. The multiple representations that it can present, as well as the diverse causes that can be provoking it, sometimes make early diagnosis difficult and, therefore, delay the application of treatment for its relief. This is why medical and nursing protocols contemplate an extensive list of clinical strategies to determine what is happening to the patient and, therefore, establish therapeutic guidelines to help alleviate their discomfort and restore their quality of life.

Thanks to the advances that have been made in this field, more and better tools are becoming available for clinical triage, facilitating the practice for healthcare professionals and giving them the possibility of establishing more accurate and effective diagnostic guidelines. And so that specialists can learn in detail the developments that have arisen in their profession, TECH and its team of experts in the field have developed this professional master’s degree in Pain Management for Nursing.

It is an educational experience that gathers the latest information related to the different representations of pain according to symptoms and causes: postoperative, oncologic and non-oncologic, musculoskeletal, etc. In addition, it places special emphasis on its management in different patients (children, adults and the elderly), through the exhaustive knowledge of the psychological skills that have shown the best results to date. Finally, the graduate will be able to implement the most innovative rehabilitation strategies in their practice, as well as the evaluation guidelines to determine the effectiveness of the therapy over time.

All this 100% online and through 1,500 hours of the best theoretical, practical and additional material, to which you will have access in its entirety from the beginning of the program. And so that the specialist can perfectly combine the course of this program with their clinical practice, they will be able to access the Virtual Campus whenever they want, without schedules or face-to-face classes, studying an educational program tailored to their needs.

You will be able to delve into new developments related to chronic non-cancer pain and its recommended nursing techniques"

This professional master’s degree in Pain Management for Nursing contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market. Its most notable features are:

• The development of case studies presented by experts in Clinical Nursing
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Would you like to improve your pain management skills through the most innovative psychological strategies? Choose this professional master’s degree and you will get it guaranteed"   

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide immersive knowledge programmed to learn in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.

You will learn more about the novelties related to pain intervention and evaluation techniques through a specific module dedicated to it"

No schedules or face-to-face classes. A tailor-made educational experience that adapts to your needs and those of the clinical sector"

Given the frequency of consultations related to the multiple types of pain that commonly affect patients, nurses must continually update their knowledge in order to be able to offer clinical services in accordance with the latest diagnostic and therapeutic developments in medicine. In order to make it easier for you to keep up to date, TECH and its team of experts in the medical field have developed this program that brings together the latest and most comprehensive information on pain management for the nursing practice.

Do you want to update your knowledge on the pathobiological techniques of pain for the approach from rehabilitation? Choose a program like this one, which will provide you with all the tools to achieve it"

General Objectives

• Manage up-to-date knowledge about pain in any of its types focused on daily care practice
• Provide all the necessary tools to nursing professionals to assess, diagnose and intervene in the patient's pain in a holistic context
• Identify pain, its consequences and the best intervention according to the situation and needs of the patient
• Identify and plan care using all necessary nursing techniques
• Specialize in the most up-to-date pain management in a multidisciplinary context and from the nursing discipline

Specific Objectives

Module 1. General Pain Concepts for Nursing

• Identify the different types of pain according to etiology, location and temporality
• Take a complete initial clinical history to be able to detect changes in condition over time
• Deepen in the different types of analgesics and their pharmacology
• Identify interventional techniques
• Integrate knowledge and updates in research for the development of new analgesics and gene therapy

Module 2. Acute and Postoperative Pain for Nursing

• Provide up-to-date knowledge of acute and post-surgical pain with a practical and care approach
• Deepen in pain prevention strategies in the context of surgery, pre-surgical care
• Contextualize the nursing work in the multidisciplinary team
• Achieve specialization in all aspects of patient safety in the surgical environment

Module 3. Chronic Oncologic Pain for Nursing

• Know, evaluate and manage all the problems derived from oncological pain, in any of its phases, to take care of all the patient's needs and contribute effectively to improve their quality of life
• Recognize the types of oncologic pain
• Manage Cancer Fatigue
• Know the side effects of antineoplastic treatments that cause pain
• Manage the specific, pharmacological, invasive and integrative therapy for the treatment of cancer pain
• Manage the nursing process in the oncologic patient with pain

Module 4. Chronic Non-Oncologic Pain for Nursing

• Acquire the necessary knowledge to develop the nursing activity, with up-to-date data and focused on daily practice, in relation to the approach to pain
• Obtain a clear vision of the importance of nursing in the adequate approach to non-oncological chronic pain, with a course expressly focused on showing an appropriate methodology for the assessment of pain and the different treatment and care options that serve as a basis in their daily activity
• Reflect on the extent of pain and its consequences
• Distinguish the different types of non-oncologic pain

Module 5. Pain in Children for Nursing

• Contextualize the epidemiology of childhood pain
• Describe the physiological or biological, behavioral and behavioral methods used to manage pain
• Acquire expertise in the different scales used by these methods for pain assessment in children and neonates
• Deepen and describe the pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment used in the management of pain in children
• Integrate the safety aspects related to the prescription and administration of drugs in children
• Deepen and describe the characteristics of pain in the oncologic child
• Describe the characteristics that define hospitalization in children
• Know the characteristics that define pain in a pediatric intensive care unit

Module 6. Musculoskeletal Pain for Nursing

• Assess the patient with pain
• Identify the type of pain: know its physiopathology and clinical characteristics
• Specialize in the main pathologies in which this type of pain occurs
• In-depth knowledge of the different treatments in their approach
• Provide health education to patients and families on the management of musculoskeletal pain

Module 7. Psychological Approach to Pain for Nursing

• Appreciate the importance of good quality communication with people with pain and improve their performance
• Know the most important psychological aspects that influence people with pain and on which the success of any treatment may depend
• Delve deeper into and choose among the most effective techniques used in the treatment of people with pain
• Provide the health professional with effective tools for the treatment of pain individually or in groups

Module 8. Pain Management through Rehabilitation and Physical Activity for Nursing

• Define clinical reasoning
• In-depth knowledge of the pathobiological mechanisms of pain
• In-depth knowledge of the characteristics, implications and treatments of nociceptive pain
• Learn more about the characteristics, prognosis and treatments of neuropathic pain
• Define and know how to manage fear of movement
• Learn and acquire expertise in the pillars of treatment from physical activity and rehabilitation: manual therapy, education and exercise
• Holistic approach to complex chronic pain: characteristics, theories and treatments

Module 9. Nurse Assessment and Intervention in Pain

• Integrate in-depth knowledge in nursing methodology
• Develop skills for the comprehensive assessment of the patient
• Know the tools for pain measurement
• Develop skills in making care plans based on the NANDA-NOC-NIC taxonomy
• Know some non-pharmacological measures that can be performed by Nursing for pain control
• Expand their knowledge of available resources and techniques to transmit them to patients through health education

Module 10. Epidemiology and Public Health for Nursing

• Update knowledge on epidemiology in chronic pain, oncologic pain, acute pain and post-surgical pain in order to contextualize in a global way the impact of pain in society and in the quality of life
• of patients and their loved ones
• Specialize in public policies related to pain and their application in the working environment of nursing in all areas of care
• Delve in the importance of bioethics in nursing and its implications in pain intervention and pharmacological treatment
• Learn more about the importance of nursing in health promotion strategies and their development in individual, group and community settings
• Contribute to the nursing discipline with touches of gender perspective in pain, social stigmatization of chronic pain and chronicity 

A program of the highest clinical standard, designed to help you achieve even your most complex objectives in just 12 months of academic experience"