Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario

Tools for Pain Management

  • RNAO Best Practice Guideline

-Best practice guideline on pain assessment and management. For more information, see: https://rnao.ca/bpg/guidelines/assessment-and-management-pain

  • RNAO Long-term care best practices toolkit, 2nd edition

-Includes a list of resources for pain assessment and management in long-term care settings. Also includes links to various pain scales. For more information, see: https://ltctoolkit.rnao.ca/clinical-topics/pain-assessment

  • Senior friendly 7 pain toolkit

-Pain toolkit for older adults, that includes pain scales and pain management strategies. For more information, see: https://www.rgptoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF7-Toolkit-V1-2018-Pain.pdf

  • The Hospital for Sick Children – Comfort Promise: Learning Hub

-Resources from The Hospital for Sick Children for pain management during needle procedures, including pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic strategies for a variety of ages and stages. For more information, see: https://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/comfortpromise

  • The Hospital for Sick Children – Tools for measuring pain

- Resource from The Hospital for Sick Children that outlines pain scale tools for various ages. For more information, see: https://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/Article?contentid=2994&language=English

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