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Learning Objectives
1.Explain the impact on patients with serious illness and their family caregivers when pain is ineffectively managed.
2.Identify pain type by duration and cause to effectively determine appropriate treatment therapies.
3.Describe disparities in pain management and their impact specific to race, ethnicity, and gender.
4.Discuss the challenges patients with Sickle Cell Disease encounter when seeking pain management.
5.Definethe concept of total pain, which includes social, emotional, environmental, cultural,and spiritual aspects of care, as well as physical.