How do nurses treat headaches?

Nurses can play a significant role in migraine management by identifying patients and offering them support, empathy and advice. Many patients will benefit from information about the correct use of over-the-counter products, trigger factors or use of other migraine-specific treatments.

What nursing care interventions would you provide for a client who is suffering from pain?

Maintain the patient’s use of nonpharmacological methods to control pain, such as distraction, imagery, relaxation, massage, and heat and cold application. Cognitive-behavioral strategies can restore patient’s sense of self-control, personal efficacy, and active participation in their own care.

What is the best treatment of headache?

Treatment

• Rest in a quiet, dark room.
• Hot or cold compresses to your head or neck.
• Massage and small amounts of caffeine.
• Over-the-counter medications such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others), acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) and aspirin.

What characteristics of a patient’s headache should be assessed?

Evaluation of Headache

• Location.
• Duration.
• Severity.
• Onset (eg, sudden, gradual)
• Quality (eg, throbbing, constant, intermittent, pressure-like)

How do care plans work?

A care plan outlines a person’s assessed care needs and how you will meet those needs to help them stay at home. You must work with the person to prepare a care plan and make sure they understand and agree with it. After services start, you must review the plan at least once every 12 months.

What are the priority nursing interventions?

7 Nursing Interventions You Do Every Single Shift – Written by a Nurse!

• Active listening. This is something that hopefully you will do with each and every patient.
• Prevent falls.
• Control pain.
• Cluster care.
• Turn every two hours / promote position changes.
• Promote adequate oral intake.
• Promote self-care.