As part of providing care to clients of a chronic pain clinic, the nurse's role:
a. includes screening for those persons susceptible to dependency or abuse
b. is to dispense controlled substances to anyone who presents a prescription
c. requires making judgments as to which clients have "legitimate" pain and which do not
d. shares responsibility with the provider to optimize responsible prescription of opiates
D
Nurses can work together with prescribing physicians to optimize the responsible prescribing of opiate medications for persons in pain. Nurses who work in settings where chronic pain is treated have to be aware of the important need to balance duty to relieve suffering with a responsibility to not dispense controlled substances to persons likely to abuse them.
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