What Is Typically the Most Reliable Indicator of Pain

question 43

Multiple Choice

What is typically the most reliable indicator of pain?

• A) Patient's self-report
• B) Past medical history
• C) Description by caregiver(s)
• D) Behavioral cues

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Definitions:

Lynching

The illegal execution of an individual by a mob, often by hanging, without legal trial, historically used as a method of terrorizing Black communities in the United States.

Senatorial Filibuster

A tactic used by senators in the United States Senate to delay or block legislative action by speaking for an extended period or by other procedural means.

Ossian H. Sweet

An African-American physician whose involvement in a self-defense case against a white mob attacking his home in Detroit became a significant civil rights landmark in the 1920s.

NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, established in 1909, is an organization dedicated to civil rights, focusing on battling discrimination, lynching, and the segregationist Jim Crow laws to elevate the conditions of people of color.