'''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: |