OPQRST Pain Assessment (Nursing)

OPQRST Pain Assessment (Nursing)
The OPQRST nursing pain assessment is super important for you to know as a nursing student. You'll need to learn how to assess pain in order to keep your patients comfortable, and also to figure out what might be going on in their body, because pain can tell you a lot about a patients condition.
So, you might be thinking, what the heck does OPQRST even mean?
OPQRST is a handy dandy mnemonic for assessing pain.
It stands for:
O: Onset
P: Provocation or Palliation
Q: Quality
R: Region or Radiation
S: Severity
T: Timing
And there are some key questions you'll need to ask for each of these categories:
O: Onset:
What were you doing when the pain started?
Did the pain happen suddenly, or had it been coming on for a while?
P: Provocation or Palliation
What makes the pain worse?
What makes the pain better?
Q: Quality
Can you describe the pain for me?
R: Region or Radiation
Where is the pain located?
Is it spreading or extending to another area?
S: Severity
On a scale of 0-10, with 0 being no pain at all, and 10 being the worst possible pain imaginable, where is your pain level at right now?
T: Timing
What were you doing when the pain started?
Is the pain always there or does it come and go?
Is there anything different about the pain than when it started?
Has this pain ever happened before?
The OPQRST mnemonic can be super handy when you're at your nursing school clinicals, or when you need to remember it during lecture class or skills lab.
And of course, we've got a free cheat sheet for you to print off so that you can remember all of these questions to ask for the OPQRST pain assessment: bit.ly/nursings...
Thanks for watching, friend! :)
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I am currently in nursing school and we use PQRSTU! Good video!

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OPQRST is also something ALL EMTs must know. Great video!

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All of our resources are geared towards nursing students in the United States because that is what we are most familiar with directly. BUT, we have heard from many international nursing students that both the Study System and the NursingSOS Membership Community are extremely helpful to them as well. That being said, we always suggest that if there are any discrepancies (we haven't heard of any!) between what you are learning and what we have, you should check with your instructor to clarify exactly what you should be learning in your specific program.

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COLDERRA pain assessment method is easy. I think

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It's very similar!

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Is COLDSPA the same?

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Yes, this is another pain assessment! Thanks for being here, Nefelibata Queen!

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did not get free cheatsheet

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Right...No cheat sheet

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