Author Question: Dying persons with a terminal illness are often given strong narcotics to a. render them ... (Read 34 times)

pane00 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Dying persons with a terminal illness are often given strong narcotics to

a. render them unconscious
b. cause insensibility to pain
c. bring about unawareness of self and surroundings
d. all of these
e. none of these

Question 2

The primary goal of drug therapies for pain in life-threatening illness is

a. to treat the underlying cause of the pain
b. to achieve analgesia
c. to relieve spiritual distress
d. to achieve anesthesia
e. to get the client out of the hospital as soon as possible