The Patient Has Advanced Cancer and Is Experiencing Pain

question 1

Multiple Choice

The patient has advanced cancer and is experiencing pain. How should the nurse plan to manage this pain?

• A) Monitor for subtle signs of pain.
• B) Set up a dosing schedule that provides for around-the-clock doses.
• C) Encourage the patient to wait 10 minutes after pain medication is required to ask for a dose.
• D) Augment the patient's regimen with other pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical pain relief measures for breakthrough pain.
• E) Counsel the patient that it is not possible to eliminate all the pain of cancer and that some must be tolerated.

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