A Patient with Severe Postoperative Pain Is Ordered to Receive

question 17

Multiple Choice

A patient with severe postoperative pain is ordered to receive morphine 2 mg intravenously.The patient asks the nurse if the drug could be taken by mouth instead.What is the nurse's best response?

• A) "Giving the drug intravenously will give you faster pain relief."
• B) "I will call your prescriber and ask if the order can be changed."
• C) "Your surgeon wants you to receive the drug intravenously."
• D) "We can substitute the intravenous drug with an oral drug."

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Definitions:

Simp

A slang term used to describe someone who performs excessive sympathy or attention towards another person, typically someone they're interested in, often disregarding their own needs or interests.

Conj

Short for "conjunction," it refers to a logical connector that combines two statements in such a way that the combined statement is true only if both individual statements are true.

Add

The mathematical process of finding the total or sum by combining two or more numbers.

T

Could refer to a variable in mathematics or physics, often representing time.