Author Question: At a health fair, a nurse explains to a participant, who is complaining of nagging pain, that it is ... (Read 23 times)

yoooooman · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

At a health fair, a nurse explains to a participant, who is complaining of nagging pain, that it is important to report the pain to the primary care physician rather than ignoring it because

1. The physician may have to order a potent analgesic.
2. Being stoic is not a trait that many nurses and physicians respect.
3. Pain will interfere with the gate, according to gate control theory.
4. Pain could be an indication that tissue damage has occurred.

Question 2

A nurse would recognize that further instruction was needed if a nursing student expressed the assumption that a patient

1. Cannot be in pain if she is sleeping.
2. Is the pain expert.
3. May be able to get more rest with pain medication.
4. May experience sleeplessness because of the hospital environment.