A Client Is Dealing with Chronic Pain

question 12

Multiple Choice

A client is dealing with chronic pain.The nurse suggests implementation of relaxation techniques.The nurse's most informed response to the client's question "How is relaxing going to help my pain?" would be:

• A) "What have you got to lose? It could certainly help."
• B) "It will increase the effectiveness of the pain medication you're taking."
• C) "Relaxing has been very helpful for people,especially those in severe pain."
• D) "Relaxing your muscles is a better way for your body to respond to the pain."

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Definitions:

Dioecious

Having male and female reproductive structures on separate plants; compare with monoecious.

Monoecious

Having male and female reproductive parts in separate flowers or cones on the same plant; compare with dioecious.

Homosporous

Referring to plants that produce spores of one kind only, which are typically bisexual and can develop into a male or female gametophyte.

Eudicot Seeds

Eudicot Seeds belong to one of the two major groups of flowering plants, characterized by having two seed leaves, or cotyledons, upon germination, among other distinct structural features.