A nurse working in a healthcare provider's office is interviewing a client that reports experiencing daily migraines. The nurse decides to further assess the impact of the client's pain
An appropriate choice of assessment tools would be which of the following? 1. Psychologic well-being inventory
2. Body Diagram tool
3. Intensity rating scale
4. Brief Pain Inventory
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Rationale 1: A psychological well-being inventory may yield information about the impact of pain on the client's sense of well-being but is not designed to specifically assess the elements of pain.
Rationale 2: A unidimensional tool such as the Body Diagram is useful for assessing pain severity at the time the client is experiencing pain.
Rationale 3: A unidimensional tool such as the intensity rating scale is useful for assessing pain severity at the time the client is experiencing pain.
Rationale 4: Migraine pain is chronic in nature and, therefore, a multidimensional tool such as the Brief Pain Inventory is the most useful for assessing two or more elements of the pain and the impact of pain on daily living.
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