The nurse cares for a patient recovering from surgery who is being mechanically ventilated and experiencing pain. Which approach should the nurse use first to assess this patient's pain?

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1. The nurse should not provide an analgesic without assessing for pain first.
2. If the patient is responsive, the nurse should ask the patient about presence of pain.
3. This could be done if the patient is not responsive.
4. This can be done; however, it is not the first method that the nurse would use to assess the patient's pain level.

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