A Client Asks the Nurse How Morphine Will Control Pain

question 26

Multiple Choice

A client asks the nurse how morphine will control pain. Which response should the nurse provide the client?

• A) "Inhibits the primary pain neurotransmitters in your brain."
• B) "Stimulates the receptors that secrete endorphins in your brain."
• C) "Interacts with receptors in your body that produce analgesia."
• D) "Promotes the primary pleasure neurotransmitters in your brain."

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Definitions:

Fraudulent Coding

Incorrectly assigning medical billing codes to inflate billing or for services that were not rendered, often resulting in fraud.

Billing Practices

Procedures and policies used by healthcare providers and medical billing specialists to prepare and submit claims for healthcare services to insurers or patients.

Modifiers

In linguistics, words, phrases, or clauses that provide additional information about another word or phrase, altering its meaning. In the medical billing context, they are codes that alter the description of a procedure or service.

CPT Codes

Current Procedural Terminology codes, a set of medical codes used to describe medical, surgical, and diagnostic services to facilitate billing and documentation.