The nurse administering pain medication every 4 hours is an example of which aspect of patient care?
a. Assessment data
b. Nursing diagnosis
c. Patient outcome
d. Nursing intervention
D
Interventions are activities that will help the patient achieve a goal, such as administering pain-relieving medication. An example of assessment data might be: "Patient reports pain is a 5 on a 1 to 10 scale." The nursing diagnosis would be "pain." The nurse might define the patient outcome in this scenario as, "The patient will state the level of pain is less than 4."
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