The Nurse Is Assessing a Patient with Chronic Pain and Learns

The nurse is assessing a patient with chronic pain and learns the patient is not able to sleep through the night. The nurse realizes this patient is demonstrating which problem?

A) The inability to cope with pain
B) A side effect of chronic pain medication use
C) Sleep deprivation because of poor pain control
D) Lying as a way to be prescribed more pain medication without an identified need