What should the nurse keep in mind when determining the relationship between pain and sleep in an older patient?
A) Nonpharmacologic measures to control pain and enhance sleep are preferable to analgesics.
B) Analgesic drugs should be administered to older adults to prevent potential episodes of pain.
C) Older adults are more sensitive to pain than younger adults, and more at risk of having pain interfere with sleep.
D) The availability of alternative forms of pain control such as massage and diversion means that pharmacologic pain medications are inappropriate and unnecessary.
A
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Nonpharmacologic measures to control pain should be attempted whenever possible. If nonpharmacologic means of pain relief are ineffective, it is appropriate to provide the weakest type of analgesic and increase as necessary to control pain. It is not known if older adults are more sensitive to pain and it would inappropriate to administer analgesic medications prophylactically to all older adults.
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