Concept Analysis Paper of Pain
Concept analysis combined with theory development is essential in the field of nursing as it leads to the clarification of concepts. This means that the approach establishes similarities and dissimilarities between ideas. As a result, precision is achieved within nursing through clearer definitions of terms. Pain is the concept under analysis, and it is central to the practice of nursing. This concept was selected because it is an experience that is perceived subjectively and it is also hard to quantify. Despite this quality, it is also a phenomenon that nurses treat often and if untreated, could result in dire consequences for the patient or even their friends and family. The nursing theory used in this analysis is the behavioral systems theory by Dorothy Johnson. In this school of thought, emphasis is on how patients’ behavior is affected by parts of their environment like social-cultural norms (Smith & Parker, 2015). This paper has eight key sections including a definition of pain (how it is used in typical English as well as medicine), examination of literature review on pain, defining attributes or aspects that characterize pain, antecedents or the precursors to pain, consequences, empirical referents or aspects of pain that are measurable, construct cases in the form of real life cases, applications in theory, and a conclusion.
Definition and Explanation of Pain
Smith and Parker (2015) define pain as physical distress caused by disease