The nurse is examining a client is in the Emergency Department. The client has recently been discharged after a right above-the-knee amputation. The client tells the nurse that her right foot hurts. The nurse suspects what type of pain?
1. Phantom pain
2. Radiating pain
3. Intractable pain
4. Cutaneous pain
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Rationale 1: The client is describing phantom pain, which is a painful sensation perceived in an absent body part or a body part that is paralyzed.
Rationale 2: Radiating pain has an origin in one part of the body and then spreads to other adjacent body parts.
Rationale 3: Intractable pain does not respond to relief measures.
Rationale 4: Cutaneous pain is pain experienced in the cutaneous tissues.
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