The Client Has Advanced Cancer and Is Experiencing Malignant Pain

question 22

Multiple Choice

The client has advanced cancer and is experiencing malignant pain.How should the nurse plan to manage this pain?
Select all that apply.

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

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