Clinical pain management educator
Confident teams. Comfortable patients.
Practical, evidence-based pain management teaching for nurses, pharmacists and doctors — from single wards to hospital-wide programmes.
What I teach
Every session is tailored to your staff, your clinical setting and your local guidelines.
Acute & Chronic Pain
Physiology, assessment tools and evidence-based management across the pain spectrum.
PCAs
Set-up, safe programming, monitoring, troubleshooting and patient education.
Epidurals
Indications, observations, recognising complications and safe weaning.
Local Anaesthetics
Nerve blocks, wound catheters, maximum doses and LAST recognition.
Opioids
Pharmacology, conversions, titration, side effects and safe prescribing.
Adjuvants
Gabapentinoids, ketamine, NSAIDs, paracetamol and multimodal strategies.
Patient Communication
Talking with opioid-naive and opioid-tolerant patients with clarity and empathy.
Discharge Planning
Safe take-home analgesia, tapering plans and reducing long-term opioid use.
Pain across the whole patient journey
Pre-assessment
Identifying risk, setting expectations and planning analgesia before surgery.
Recovery
Rapid, safe pain control in PACU and the handover to the ward.
Post-op
Ward-level management, escalation and multimodal regimes.
Discharge
Confident patients, clear plans and safe medicines at home.
Comprehensive guides, delivered your way
I bring ready-made, comprehensive teaching guides that can be delivered to small ward teams or rolled out to hospital-wide groups.
- Hospital-wide teaching programmes
- Ward-based and bedside sessions
- Induction & preceptorship training
- Study days and workshops
- Take-away guides and resources for staff
Let’s upskill your team
Tell me about your staff, setting and goals and I’ll put together a teaching plan.
info@selfstrategies.co.uk