The nurse is caring for a client with terminal bone cancer. The client states, My pain is getting worse and worse, and the morphine doesn't help anymore. The nurse determines the client's pain is which of the following?
A) Acute
B) Chronic malignant
C) Diffuse
D) Intractable
Ans: D
Chronic malignant pain is acute pain episodes, persistent chronic pain, or both, associated with a progressive malignant-type process.
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