[Catmom]

I well remember being told as a nurse in the early 2000’s that pain was “undertreated” and opioids were “underprescribed.” As a nurse with already 20+ years of clinical experience I knew this was a prescription (no pun intended) for disaster. But I had no idea it would end up as bad as it has.

[LibsRJerks]

Yep ....pain is “whatever they say it is.”

Dude sitting there wolfing down a cheeseburger in the hospital bed gets his immediate dilaudid dose because he says his pain is a 10!!

[cherry]

"I well remember being told as a nurse in the early 2000’s that pain was “undertreated” and opioids were “underprescribed.” As a nurse with already 20+ years of clinical experience I knew this was a prescription (no pun intended) for disaster. But I had no idea it would end up as bad as it"

I remember this exactly..

drs and hospitals were under the gun due to JACCO demanding that we treat pain until its gone and we had to be sure we documented it and no matter what...

and you could not use common sense or your medical knowledge you had to depend on the patient and what they "felt"....

so many especially the younger ones learned very quick to always say they were a "10" in pain , and wanted their Dilaudid, their Phenergan and their bendaryl all IV and all at the same time, and btw, push it fast....