The nurse is reviewing a patient's completed pain assessment questionnaire that provides information about the impact of pain on the ability to function. The pain assessment tool the patient completed was most likely the:
1. Brief Pain Inventory.
2. Simple Verbal Descriptive Scale.
3. Visual Analog Scale.
4. Numeric Rating Scale.
Brief Pain Inventory.
Rationale: The Brief Pain Inventory asks multiple questions regarding pain and its impact on patient function and addresses the multidimensionality of the pain experience. The Simple Verbal Descriptive Scale asks the patient to rate the pain from "no pain" to "excruciating.". The Visual Analog Scale uses "No Pain" and "Pain as Bad as It Can Possibly Be" as descriptors at either end of a horizontal line measuring 10 centimeters in length. Each centimeter on the scale corresponds to a number from 0 to 10. The Numeric Rating Scale uses a horizontal line and the patient is asked to rate pain on a scale from 0 to 10.
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