When conducting a pain history, which data is least essential for the nurse to obtain regarding the client's pain?
1. Intensity, quality, and patterns
2. Precipitating factors, alleviating factors, and associated symptoms
3. Effects on activities of daily living, coping resources, and affective responses
4. Significant other's assessment of the pain
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Rationale 1: The nurse should determine all of these factors in order to put a plan of care in place that will help the client address and treat the pain effectively.
Rationale 2: The nurse should determine all of these factors in order to put a plan of care in place that will help the client address and treat the pain effectively.
Rationale 3: The nurse should determine all of these factors in order to put a plan of care in place that will help the client address and treat the pain effectively.
Rationale 4: During a pain history, it is the client's description of the pain that is most important, not the significant other's.
Global Rationale: During a pain history, it is the client's description of the pain that is most important, not the significant other's. The nurse should determine all of the other factors in order to put a plan of care in place that will help the client address and treat the pain effectively.
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