A printable acute pain nursing care plan for nursing students, built around a completed post-operative example, with pain assessment tools, sedation monitoring, interventions with rationales and a worksheet.

This 9-page PDF follows one patient on the first day after a total knee replacement. It shows a fully completed nursing care plan, from assessment data and priority diagnoses through four care plans to a written evaluation for each. It also covers types of pain, the stages of pain transmission, pain rating scales, assessment of patients who cannot report pain, and the POSS sedation scale. A filled-in pain reassessment record, a medication table and a blank worksheet are included. US Letter, ready to print.