A patient is admitted with the complaint of chest pain. Which of the following must the nurse assess to discriminate between pain of cardiac origin and that of pulmonary origin?
1. sensations of loss, timing, and diet
2. precipitating factors, quality, and location
3. home remedies, bedrest, and diet
4. dietary habits, smoking, and cough history
2
Rationale: The pain assessment will include the following factors: quality, radiation and region (location), associated symptoms, and timing and treatment strategies. Precipitating factors, quality, and location includes those characteristics, whereas the other choices include diet, extraneous factors, and risk factors which are not included when discriminating between pain of cardiac origin from that of a pulmonary origin.
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