Sheldon Swanson Is a 14-Year-Old Boy Scheduled for Spinal Fusion

question 14

Multiple Choice

Sheldon Swanson is a 14-year-old boy scheduled for spinal fusion with implantation of rods from T₁₀ to L2.During the preoperative interview and assessment,Sheldon asks the perioperative nurse how bad his pain will be when he wakes up,and if he will have enough pain medicine available.Sheldon also wonders how the nurse will know when his pain is severe enough to ask for pain medicine.The perioperative nurse assures Sheldon that he will have many options available to him to manage his pain after the surgery.An appropriate risk reduction strategy that the nurse can implement during the preoperative assessment is to:

• A) explain and demonstrate the adolescent pediatric pain tool.
• B) explain and demonstrate the Likert-type pain rating scale with scores ranging from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain).
• C) ask Sheldon to teach back what he knows about the pain scales.
• D) All of the options are correct.

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