Question

A nurse assesses a postoperative patient two days after chest surgery. what findings indicate that the patient requires better pain management (select all that

Answer 1

These findings indicate that the patient require a better pain management:
1. Confusion
2. Poor cough
3. Shallow breathing
4. Elevated temperature effort.
Poor pain control can result in confusion as a result of hypo ventilation and inadequate sleep. It can also reduce tidal volume and cough efforts, this in turn may leads to other complications including elevated temperature.