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<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''Pain''', follow this link.</center>
<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''Pain''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Pain this link].</center>
'''Pain''', in the sense of [[physical]] pain,[1] is the unpleasant sensation typically associated with bodily [[harm]]. For scientific and clinical purposes, pain is defined by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_for_the_Study_of_Pain International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)] as "an unpleasant [[sensory]] and [[emotion]]al [[experience]] associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".[2][3] In medicine, pain is considered as highly subjective.[4] A definition that is widely used in nursing was first given as early as 1968 by Margo McCaffery:
'''Pain''', in the sense of [[physical]] pain,[1] is the unpleasant sensation typically associated with bodily [[harm]]. For scientific and clinical purposes, pain is defined by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_for_the_Study_of_Pain International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)] as "an unpleasant [[sensory]] and [[emotion]]al [[experience]] associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".[2][3] In medicine, pain is considered as highly subjective.[4] A definition that is widely used in nursing was first given as early as 1968 by Margo McCaffery:
