The client has advanced cancer and is experiencing malignant pain.How should the nurse plan to manage this pain?
Select all that apply.

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For the management of malignant pain in advanced cancer, the nurse should set up a dosing schedule that provides for round-the-clock doses (B) to maintain consistent pain relief. Moreover, other pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical pain relief measures should be provided to manage breakthrough pain (D) whenever it occurs in spite of the regular administration of pain medication. Using the intravenous route for pain medication administration (A) may be appropriate in some cases, but the question does not provide sufficient information to support or reject this choice. Encouraging the client to wait 10 minutes after pain medication is required to ask for a dose (C) is not appropriate. The client should be allowed to report pain and receive the medication as required without delay. Counseling the client that it is not possible to eliminate all the pain of cancer and that some must be tolerated (E) is not appropriate either. The nurse should not give up on pain relief and should strive to achieve the highest possible level of comfort for the client.

The Client Has Advanced Cancer and Is Experiencing Malignant Pain