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Deast7027

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You are assigned to care for a patient with chronic low back pain. What adjustment in pain management do you expect to make?
 
  a. Encouraging the patient to hold off taking a pain drug as long as possible to reduce the potential for addiction.
  b. Relying on patient report of pain rather than on changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and pulse rate.
  c. Keeping the environment as quiet as possible to avoid distracting or irritating the patient.
  d. Using nondrug measures in place of analgesics to relieve the patient's pain.

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After surgery, a patient expresses the fear of becoming addicted to the opioid analgesic that has been prescribed for pain. What is your best response?
 
  a. Opioid-based drugs are not addictive.
  b. Have you or anyone in your family ever been addicted to drugs?
  c. When opioid drugs are taken for acute pain, they are rarely addictive.
  d. If you take the medication no more frequently than every 4 hours, it is not possible for you to become addicted.


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steff9894

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Reply #1 on: Jul 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C


Deast7027

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Reply 2 on: Jul 23, 2018
Excellent

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