Prioritizing Assessment of Postoperative Movement-Evoked Pain
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JULY 31, 2023
Staja Booker, PhD, RN It’s 10:00, 15 hours postoperative, and your patient has eaten breakfast and is resting comfortably in bed. You ask the patient, “On a scale of zero to 10, how much pain are you having right now?” The nurse documents the pain score as 0/10 and continues their rounds. The contextual factor called movement.
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