To establish an effective relationship with the patient in pain, ...

[misspop]

To establish an effective relationship with the patient in pain, the nurse should begin the assessment by saying:
 
  a. I'll check to see if you can have anything.
  b. Let me give you a backrub and see if it helps.
  c. I believe you are in pain.
  d. When was your last medication for pain?

Question 2

When the patient who overeats insists that weight gain is related to retained fluids, the nurse recognizes the defense mechanism of:
 
  a. compensation.
  b. rationalization.
  c. sublimation.
  d. regression.

[Mollythedog]

Answer to Question 1

C
A nursing intervention to establish an effective relationship is to believe the patient. Although the other options are not wrong, they do not help establish an effective relationship.

Answer to Question 2

B
Defense mechanisms are unconscious reactions that offer protection to the self from stressful situations. Rationalization offers a reasonable explanation for an event rather than facing reality.

[misspop]

Excellent

[softEldritch]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it