Margo McCaffery was an American registered nurse and pioneer of the field of pain management nursing. McCaffery's oft-quoted definition of pain as "whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever and wherever the person says it does", stated as early as 1968, has become the prevailing conceptualization of pain for clinicians over the past few decades.
McCaffery died on January 8, 2018.
References
- Aschenbrenner, Diane S. (2009), "Chapter 23: Drugs treating severe pain", in Aschenbrenner, Diane S.; Venable, Samantha J. (eds.), Drug therapy in nursing (3rd ed.), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, pp. 373–398, ISBN 978-0-7817-6587-9
- Harper, Phil (13 December 2007 – 9 January 2008). "Postoperative pain: why are patients′ self-reports so unreliable?". Letter. British Journal of Nursing. 16 (22): 1375. doi:10.12968/bjon.2007.16.22.27765. PMID 18361384.
- Rosdahl, Caroline Bunker; Kowalski, Mary T. (2008). Textbook of basic nursing (9th ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 978-0-7817-6521-3.
- "Remembering Margo McCaffery's Contributions to Pain Management". ONS Voice. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
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