When you make a return visit to a postoperative patient to assess her progress with incentive spirometry, she indicates that compared to yesterday her pain is preventing her from carry out the treatment. On a 10-point scale, she rates the effect of her pain on her activities as an '8.' You should
A. coach her to go ahead with the incentive spirometry anyway
B. tell the nurse to up the dosage of the patient's pain medicatio
C. switch the patient to intermittent positive pressure breathing therapy
D. report this finding to the patient's attending physician
Answer: D. report this finding to the patient's attending physician
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