Simple analgesics: choosing with care
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Simple analgesics: choosing with care

Jane Latham Freelance Nurse Consultant, Pain Management

It is important that nurses have adequate knowledge about pain management to enable them to advise patients on the different types of ‘over-the-counter’ analgesics available, and to recognise when it is important to seek further medical advice

The aim of this Learning Unit is to develop your knowledge of ‘over-the-counter’ analgesics so that you can give informed advice to patients and clients.

Nursing Standard. 7, 20, 9-14. doi: 10.7748/ns.7.20.9.s64

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