Therapeutic Touch : Its Effectiveness On Surgical Incision Site Pain Es

Therapeutic Touch Its Effectiveness On Surgical shekels Site PainINTRODUCTION     Therapeutic receive has been shown to decrease patients dread levels andincrease their pain tolerance levels when other to a greater extent mainstream therapies giftnot been comp permitely effective. "Therapeutic converge is a address by which clevernessis transmitted from one person to another for the purpose of potentiating thehealing process of one who is ill or injured." (Heidt, 1981 Krieger, 1979Lionberger, 1985 Randolph, 1984 Kramer, 1990). In my capacity as a nursingstudent on a medical- surgical unit, I have noticed an increase in painmedication requests among patients with incision put pain and a minimal office ofalternative therapies for this pain management. With the use of therapeutictouch nurses can regain a closeness with patients and in addition have a direct effecton their pain level. therefore the purpose of this study will be to determineif the rapeutic touch is an effective intervention for patients experiencingsurgical incision site pain deep down the first forty-eight hours aft(prenominal) surgery.PROBLEM STATEMENT     The question represent for study is "Is therapeutic touch an effectiveintervention for fall a patients surgical site pain within the firstforty-eight hours after surgery?". The independent variable is therapeutictouch. The dependant variable is decreasing surgical site pain. The populationto be studied will be patients on a thirty bed medical-surgical floor of a LakeCharles hospital. cubic decimeter surgical patients will be studied over a four weekperiod. The patients will be randomly selected to avoid any yield by theresearcher.SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROBLEM     "... therapeutic touch is a nursing intervention that has the potentialfor eliciting a state of physiological relaxation in patients and for decreasingpatients anxiety" (Heidt, 1991). T he use of therapeutic touch is very burning(prenominal)to the nursing community. The need for immediate intervention in acute orchronic pain could be handled at the bedside with no need to bear a doctorsorder for pharmacological intervention. Anxiety could be lessened to letpatients rest more comfortably in the stressful hospital environment. withalteaching could be enhanced in the less anxious and more pain free client.... ...al Nursing, 31, (2),19-22.     Keller, E., MSN,RN-C, Bzdek, V.M., PhD, RN, (1986). Effects oftherapeutic touch on tension headache pain. Nursing Research, 35, (2), 101-106.     Kramer, N.A., MSN, RN, (1990). Comparison of therapeutic touch andcasual touch in stress reduction of hospitalized children. Pediatric Nursing, 16,(5), 483-485.     Mathews, K.M., RN, MN, SCM, (1991). Mothers satisfaction with theirneonates breast alimentation behaviors. Journal of Gynecological and NeonatalNursing, 20, (1 ), 48-55.     Polit, D.F., PhD, Hungler, B.P., RN,PhD, (1993). Essentials of nursingresearch methods,appraisal, and utilization (3rd ed.). Philadelphia J.B.Lippincott company.      outcome manual of the american psychological association (6th ed.).(1995).Washington D.C. American mental Association.     Quinn, J.F., RN, PhD, FAAN, Strelkauskas, A.J., PhD, (1993).Psychoimmunologic effects of therapeutic touch on practitioners and recentlybereaved recipients A pilot study. Advances in Nursing Science, 15, (4), 13-26.