A student nurse is assessing the pain of a teenage patient with cancer.The student nurse ask the patient about precipitating factors,quality,relieving factors,where the pain is,the severity of pain,and the effect of the pain has on the patient.What is the other indicator that the student nurse should make part of this pain assessment?

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The comprehensive assessment of pain aims to gather information about the cause of a person's pain and determine its effect on his or her ability to function.
•Palliative or provocative factors-What makes your pain worse or better?
•Quality-How do you describe your pain?
•Relief measures-What do you take at home to gain pain relief?
•Region (location)-Show me where you hurt.
•Severity-On a scale of 0 to 10,with 10 being worst,how bad is your pain now?
•Timing (onset,duration,and pattern)-Is your pain constant,intermittent,or both?
•U (effect of pain on patient)-What are you not able to do because of your pain?

A Student Nurse Is Assessing the Pain of a Teenage