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Margo McCaffery

American nurse (died 2018) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Margo McCaffery was an American registered nurse and pioneer of the field of pain management nursing. McCaffery's oft-quoted definition of pain as "whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever and wherever the person says it does", stated as early as 1968,[1]:375 has become the prevailing conceptualization of pain for clinicians over the past few decades.[2][3]:704

McCaffery died on January 8, 2018.[4]

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