A patient with end stage pancreatic cancer and dementia is assigned to a nurse for hospice care. How can the nurse effectively provide an ongoing assessment of this patient's pain?

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3. The Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) scale uses categories of behavior observed by the nurse to rate the patient's pain. This measurement can provide comparable scores from one observation to the next. The numerical scale and visual scales that require either verbal communication or understanding may not elicit an accurate response from a patient with dementia. Anecdotal reports do not provide an efficient method of comparison.

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