A patient is experiencing severe pain, despite receiving pain medication for the past 24 hours. The patient's wife expresses concern about this to the nurse. Which response by the nurse would be most empowering to the patient's family?
A) Explain that the doctor is an expert on pain medication and that the current level of medication is the best.
B) Recommend that the family members take turns massaging the patient's feet to distract from the pain.
C) Encourage the family to request that the physician evaluate the patient's pain control.
D) Ask the family to wait another 24 hours to see whether the patient's pain level will go down.
C
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a. Create a class on parenting for both the moms-to-be and the dads-to-be b. Convince the school board to allow sex education classes to include birth control measures c. Employ the moms-to-be as 1-hour-a-day employees in the school day care center for children born to school students d. Establish a class where all the unwed moms-to-be can learn infant care
A nurse is caring for a pregnant client who has a history of depression. When including information to decrease the client's risk for having an infant diagnosed with failure to thrive (FTT), which rationale is appropriate?
A) Women with mental illness have a decreased breast milk supply, increasing the risk of FTT. B) Women with mental illness may be socially isolated, increasing the risk of FTT. C) Women with mental illness take medications that pass through the breast milk, increasing the risk of FTT. D) Women with mental illness lack the knowledge required to provide adequate nutrition, increasing the risk of FTT.
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a. intragroup b. intergroup c. interpersonal d. intrapersonal
The process of comprehending is completed when data saturation is achieved
A) True B) False