Nurses can use a preventive approach to pain management. Nursing actions could include:(Select all that apply) Standard Text: Select all that apply
1. Administering analgesics before an invasive procedure
2. Having clients ask for medication
3. Providing analgesics around-the-clock
4. Administer pain medication at scheduled intervals
5. Maintaining the client's PCA pump
1,3,4,5
Rationale: Preemptive analgesia is the administration of analgesics before an invasive or operative procedure, such as a complicated dressing change
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1. "What kind of work do you do?" 2. "What furniture have you gotten for the baby?" 3. "How moody has your wife been lately?" 4. "How are you feeling about becoming a father?"
The nurse is planning interventions to promote the health of a family struggling with loss of energy and privacy for the parents. In which family stage is the family?
A) Family with young children B) Family with adolescents and young adults C) Family with middle-aged adults D) Family with older adults
A person has fainted. You should do which of the following?
a. Loosen tight clothing. b. Lower the person's legs. c. Have the person walk around to stimulate circulation. d. Assist the person to a sitting position as he starts to wake up.
Many consumers and advocacy groups in the United States have raised concerns around the practices of the pharmaceutical industry. These concerns are most often motivated by the fact that
A) drug research and development is conducted overseas but most drugs are sold domestically. B) residents of other industrialized countries have better availability of drugs. C) drug costs are higher in the US than in many other industrialized countries. D) pharmaceutical companies have shown an unwillingness to develop new drugs.