A preschool-age child is admitted for complaints of abdominal pain and vomiting. What is the best method for the nurse to collect data about the pain level of the child?
A) Ask the child to rate the pain on a scale of 0 to 10.
B) The Wong-Baker FACES scale
C) Ask the child to describe the pain.
D) A word scale
B
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The Wong-Baker FACES scale is best for pediatric, culturally diverse, and mentally challenged clients. It uses pictures and short descriptive phrases. The preschool-age child would have difficulty understanding the meaning of numbers in relation to pain. Asking the child to describe the pain does not give information about the level of pain the child is experiencing. Because the preschool child has a limited vocabulary, a word scale would not be appropriate for the rating of pain.
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