Useful Web Links

VIP Links

• Techniques/Policies/Guidelines
• Mosby Nursing Skills
• Drug Formulary

Nursing Organizations

• American Society for Pain Management Nursing
  Includes Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice for Pain Management, Continuing Education programs, Position statements.
• Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
• Oncology Nursing Society

Professional Organizations

• American Academy of Pain Management 
• American Academy of Pain Medicine
  Includes patient education materials and resources, such as finding a pain specialist and links to pain organizations
• American Chronic Pain Association
  An advocacy group for individuals with chronic pain and their families. It includes educational resources and opportunities for peer support.
• American Geriatrics Society
• American Pain Foundation
  An advocacy group for patients with pain; it offers practical patient information and resources on living wth chronic pain.
• American Pain Society
  Includes links to other professional organizations
• American Society of Addiction Medicine
• American Society of Regional Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
  Includes patient information on types of regional anesthesia and analgesia, and chronic pain management
• International Association for the Study of Pain
  Multidisciplinary professional organization dedicated to education, research and improving pain management.
• Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc.

Other Professional Educational resources

• City of Hope Pain and Palliative Care Resource Center
  Includes information and resources for improving the quality of pain management, e.g., publications and materials for professionals and patients alike in areas including pain and the family, pediatrics and pain and the elderly.
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices
• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  Includes information on different types of cancers, cancer statistics and NCI publications
• National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
  Includes information on specific pain disorders such as chronic pain, complex regional pain syndrome (RSD), shingles, trigeminal neuralgia
• National Pain Education Council
• Pain and Policies Study Group, University of Wisconsin
  Includes ‘pain management report cards’ for each state
• Partners Against Pain
  Includes pain management information and resources
• Pain Topics
• Pain.com
• Stoppain.org - Department of Pain Medician & Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center

Other Patient Resources

• American Cancer Society
• Arthritis Foundation
• National Cancer Institute
• National Fibromyalgia Association
• National Headache Foundation
• National Pain Foundation
  Includes information such as treatment options, Personal Pain Inventory, Personal Pain Journal, Links, Education, Support, etc.

Continuing Education, Clincal Guidelines, and Position Statements

• Pain Management Series
• Pharmacologic management of persistent pain in older persons
• American Society for Pain Management Nurses Position Statements, e.g.
  • Pain management in patients with addictive disease
  • Optimizing the treatment of pain in patients with acute presentations
  • Pain Management in the nonverbal patient: Position Statement with clinical practice recommendations
  • The use of ‘as needed’ range orders for opioid analgesics in the management of acute pain
  • End-of-life care
  • Neonatal circumcision pain relief
  • Use of placebos for pain management