Abstract
Pain perception is a very complicated phenomenon in dementia care. Both rationalists and empiricists strived to reach to an understanding of pain perception. Rationalists such as Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes made some contributions in knowledge development of the concept of pain perception. Empiricists discussed how sensory experience, evidence based practice, tradition, and systematic approach of thinking could affect the knowledge attainment of pain perception. Nurse researchers would investigate both philosophical traditions in order to have comprehensive understanding of pain perception and facilitate nurses’ decisions to treat pain in people with dementia.
Highlights
Nurse researchers would investigate both philosophical traditions in order to have comprehensive understanding of pain perception and facilitate nurses’ decisions to treat pain in people with dementia
Pain perception is a complex topic of inquiry that can be studied in terms of miscellaneous disciplines of knowledge
The most challenging thing for nurses in the care-providing process to the People With Dementia (PWD) is to understand the perception of pain experienced by patients as to feel and recognize their sense of pain, especially because this category of patients have verbal impediments that hinder them from verbally and orally expressing their feelings about pain degree and level of suffering
Summary
Pain perception is a complex topic of inquiry that can be studied in terms of miscellaneous disciplines of knowledge. The most challenging thing for nurses in the care-providing process to the People With Dementia (PWD) is to understand the perception of pain experienced by patients as to feel and recognize their sense of pain, especially because this category of patients have verbal impediments that hinder them from verbally and orally expressing their feelings about pain degree and level of suffering. These difficulties, arise from mental and cognitive impairments that affect their true understanding of the self as a conscious process. The likely areas of disagreement in these two philosophical traditions will be highlighted in details
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