The nurse is planning care for a patient with chronic pain. Which pain control goal would be most appropriate for this patient?
1. Reduce the focus on pain.
2. Reduce the sympathetic stress response.
3. Be completely pain free.
4. Improve patient outcomes.
Correct Answer: 1
With chronic pain the pain itself becomes the problem, creating physical, psychosocial, and economic stresses on the affected individual and the family. Furthermore, emotional and psychologic factors can cause the pain itself or make it worse. Reducing the sympathetic pain response and improving patient outcomes would be appropriate acute pain management goals. Being completely pain free might be an unattainable goal for a patient with chronic pain.
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