You are a nurse caring for an elderly female patient in a medical-surgical inpatient unit. The patient is suffering from an alteration in level of comfort related to post-surgical pain.
As you evaluate her response to the standard care provided, you wonder about the effectiveness of alternate interventions. When you frame your question as a PICO question, the intervention would be: a. the standard treatment
b. the alternative treatment
c. the outcome
d. the population
e. none of the above
Question 2
With the uncertainty that a multiple trauma accident poses in an Emergency Department, the physicians and nursing staff generally tend to come together for the common good.
This is il-lustrated by which of the following communication strategies?
A. Less enthusiasm and frantic, quick state-ments of doom
B. Somber tone with short, monosyllabic words
C. More professional wording and less fami-liarity with team members
D. More personal and group approach
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