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Roselyn Schmidt
Roselyn Schmidt, R.N., partnering with husband Don and son Kent, designed, own, manage and operate Chaucer Estates, Retirement and Assisted Living. Since 1967, the Schmidt's have owned five nursing homes, managing and operating the facilities as a family. In 1986, they built Andover Health Care, and in 1995 became part owners of Park West in West Wichita, until the 1998 flood, leading them to create Chaucer Estates. Most recently, the Schmidt family has opened their newest retirement and assisted living facility in Overland Park, KS, "Rose Estates". Since 1955, Rose has enjoyed a vast nursing career, raised six children, and presently serves as Admissions, and oversees marketing at Chaucer Estates. You can reach Rose at (316) 630-8111, or visit Chaucer Estates at 10550 E. 21st North, in East Wichita.
Senior Living
2004-07-01 09:14:00
Pain management without meds?
: Does pain management always have to include medications?
ANSWER:   While there will always be  something out there that works in some situations, medications can, and do, play a major role in pain management.The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as the sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Pain includes not only the perception of an uncomfortable stimulus, but also the response to that perception. Experiencing pain is influenced by a great number of interacting physical, mental, biochemical, and physiological, psychological, social cultural and emotional factors. There are different signs of pain: acute and chronic.In treating pain, it is not unusual for analgesics to be administered in accordance with the time specified to have elapsed between doses. Pain characteristics should be evaluated to determine the location and radiation, quality, severity on a scale of 1 to 10, temporal qualities (onset and duration) and associated symptoms experienced.
 
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