The nurse understands that the consequences of unrelieved pain can cause an increase in:
1. Stress.
2. Sleep.
3. Healing.
4. Addiction.
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Rationale:
1. Unrelieved pain is stressful, and has many undesirable physiologic consequences.
2. Unrelieved pain can make it difficult to obtain restful sleep.
3. Healing is delayed when pain is not adequately relieved.
4. There is no correlation between unrelieved pain and addiction.
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