Foundation-NURS_222_Pain_Management

A nurse is preparing to administer gabapentin 900 mg PO once daily for a client who has neuropathic pain. The amount available is gabapentin 300 mg/capsule. How many capsules should the nurse administer per dose? (Round the answer to the nearest whole number. Use a leading zero if it applies. Do not use a trailing zero.)

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A nurse is caring for a client who is dying of metastatic breast cancer. She has a prescription for an opioid pain medication PRN. The nurse is concerned that administering a dose of pain medication might hasten the client's death. Which of the following ethical principles should the nurse use to support the decision not to administer the medication?

Nonmaleficence

A nurse is caring for a client who reports low back pain and asks the nurse for specific exercise recommendations. Which of the following activities should the nurse suggest?

Swimming

A nurse is caring for a client who is to start therapy with ibuprofen for hip pain. Which of the following information should the nurse provide about ibuprofen?

Take the medication with food.

A nurse in a substance abuse clinic is assessing a client who recently started taking disulfiram. The client reports having discontinued the medication after experiencing severe nausea and vomiting. Which of the following reasons should the nurse suspect to be a likely cause of the client's distress?

The client consumed alcohol while taking the medication.

A nurse administers an incorrect medication to a client. Following an assessment of the client, the nurse determines that the client has experienced no untoward effects as a result of the medication. The nurse does not complete an incident report because no harm came to the client. Which of the following ethical principles did the nurse violate?

Veracity

A nurse is caring for a client who is receiving opioid epidural analgesia during labor. Which of the following findings is the nurse's priority?

Blood pressure 80/56 mm Hg

Which of the following patient conditions is categorized as a neurobiological disease?

Addiction

A nurse is caring for a client who reports recurrent flank pain, nausea, and vomiting for 24 hr. Which of the following actions is the nurse's priority?

Administer pain medication.

A nurse is caring for a client who had total hip arthroplasty 1 day ago and is receiving morphine sulfate by PCA pump for pain control. The client reports nausea and vomiting. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?

Auscultate bowel sounds.

A nurse is caring for a 6-month-old infant who is postoperative following a myringotomy. Which of the following pain scales should the nurse use to determine the infant's pain level?

FLACC

A nurse is caring for a client who is postoperative. The nurse should base her pain management interventions primarily on which of the following methods of determining the intensity of the client's pain?

The client's self-report of pain severity

The nurse is administering pain medication for several patients. Which patient does the nurse administer medication to first?

The patient who is experiencing 8/10 pain and has a STAT order for pain medication

A nurse is planning care for a client who is postoperative. Which of the following statements about pain management should the nurse consider when implementing client care? (Select all that apply.)

Use of analgesics will eventually lead to addiction. Each client's expression of pain may be different and individualized. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) offers a constant level of opioids within therapeutic range. Pain level and pain tolerance can be assessed using a scale from 0 to 10.

The nurse frequently must assess a patient who is experiencing pain. When assessing the intensity of the pain, the nurse should:

offer the patient a pain scale to objectify the information.

A nurse is caring for a client who requests prescription pain medication. Which of the following actions should the nurse perform first?

Determine the location of the pain.

A nurse is talking with a client who is about to start using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) to manage chronic pain. Which of the following statements should the nurse identify as an indication that the client needs further teaching?

"It's unfortunate that I have to be in the hospital for this treatment."

The nurse is teaching a student nurse about pain assessment scales. Which statement by the student indicates correct understanding?

"Pain assessment scales determine the quality of a patient's pain."

A nurse is caring for a client who is using a patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pump for postoperative pain management. The nurse enters the room to find the client asleep and his partner pressing the button to dispense another dose. Which of the following responses should the nurse make?

"Your husband should decide when more medication is needed."

A patient arrives at the emergency department experiencing a headache and rates the pain as 7 on a 0 to 10 pain scale. What nonpharmacological intervention does the nurse implement for this patient while awaiting orders for pain medication from the health care provider?

Softly plays music that the patient finds relaxing

A nonpharmacological approach that the nurse may implement for patients who are experiencing pain that focuses on diverting the patient's attention away from the pain sensation by promoting pleasurable and meaningful stimuli is:

distraction

A nurse is caring for a client is receiving hydromorphone HCL (a type of narcotic) via PCA pump and reports continuous pain of 6 on a scale from 0 to 10. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?

Check the display on the PCA pump.

The patient is scheduled for surgery late in the afternoon. His postoperative orders include PCA therapy. Which of the following nursing interventions is appropriate to perform?

Teach the patient about PCA before surgery and before preoperative medication administration.

A nurse is assessing a client who reports acute pain. The nurse should anticipate which of the following findings?

Increased heart rate

A nurse is assessing a patient who started to have severe pain 3 days ago. When the nurse asks the patient to describe the pain, the patient states, "The pain feels like it is in my stomach. It is a burning pain, and it spreads out in a circle around the spot where it hurts the most." What type of pain does the nurse document that the patient is having at this time?

Visceral pain