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Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

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Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
Halley is a 62-year-old female, previously healthy with no significant medical history, and no known allergies. She is admitted to your medical-surgical floor for an infectious disease work-up. Halley has been experiencing generalized pain and nausea for the past 3 weeks, and recently developed a fever. The doctors at the urgent care center, and then the emergency department, were perplexed by her presentation. You have been ordered to perform several tests: complete blood count (CBC) , C-reactive protein (CRP) , eosinophil sedimentation rate (ESR) , blood culture, urine culture, and a lumbar puncture with cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) culture and cell count. You are also collecting a sputum culture, as well as swabbing her nose with a culturette, and performing a nasal wash.
-The lumbar puncture was especially painful and uncomfortable for Halley.What step listed below is most important to be taken to ensure the procedure does not need to be performed a second time?

Definitions:

Negative Situation

Describes an event, circumstance, or condition perceived as unfavorable, harmful, or detrimental.

Victim

Someone who has been harmed, injured, or negatively affected by another person or situation, often resulting in suffering or disadvantage.

Harm

Physical injury, damage to health, or emotional distress caused by actions or events that negatively affect well-being.

Transactional Analysis

A psychoanalytic theory and method of therapy wherein social transactions are analyzed to determine the ego state of the communicator as a basis for understanding behavior.