For the first four hours after initiating opioid therapy, the nurse will assess the RR every 1-2 hours
a. true
b. false
Ans: b. false
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A nurse who provides care in a large, inner-city hospital comes into contact with older adults from a wide variety of cultural groups. How is culture most likely to influence the assessment and management of pain?
A) Cultural differences affect the intensity of pain. B) Culture can dictate the appropriate expression of pain. C) Culture should determine the choice of analgesia when treating pain. D) Culture is unrelated to pain because pain is a physiological, rather than psychosocial, phenomenon.
Different" refers to another way of doing or seeing things
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.