To establish an effective relationship with the patient in pain, the nurse should begin the assessment by saying:
a. "I'll check to see if you can have anything."
b. "Let me give you a backrub and see if it helps."
c. "I believe you are in pain."
d. "When was your last medication for pain?"
C
A nursing intervention to establish an effective relationship is to believe the patient. Although the other options are not wrong, they do not help establish an effective relationship.
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