While at clinical, you are accompanying a registered nurse (…
While at clinical, you are accompanying a registered nurse (RN) to complete a health history as part of the admission on a new patient. When you both walk into the patient’s room, the patient is moving around in the bed and states ‘my stomach is hurting so bad’. The RN assesses the patient’s pain and quantifies that it is a 10 on a scale of 0 – 10 with 0 being no pain and 10 being severe pain. What is the next best action by the RN?
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