A nurse is planning a medical patient's care with consideration of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Within this framework of understanding, what would be the nurse's first priority?
A) Allowing the family to see a newly admitted patient
B) Ambulating the patient in the hallway
C) Administering pain medication
D) Teaching the patient to self-administer insulin safely
Ans: C
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In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, pain relief addresses the patient's basic physiologic need. Activity, such as ambulation, is a higher level need above the physiologic need. Allowing the patient to see family addresses a higher level need related to love and belonging. Teaching the patient is also a higher level need related to the desire to know and understand and is not appropriate at this time, as the basic physiologic need of pain control must be addressed before the patient can address these higher level needs.
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