The Patient Has Advanced Cancer and Is Experiencing Malignant Pain

question 22

Multiple Choice

The patient has advanced cancer and is experiencing malignant pain.How should the nurse plan to manage this pain? Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

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

Assess the factors influencing purchase decisions for training programs.

Recognize the significance and allocation of learning and development expenditures.

Implement steps for conducting needs and organizational analyses.

Differentiate between pre-training, training, and post-training interventions.

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