Immediate surgery is planned for a patient with acute abdominal pain. The question used by the nurse that will elicit the most complete information about the patient's coping-stress tolerance pattern is

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The coping-stress tolerance pattern includes information about other major stressors confronting the patient. The health perception-health management pattern includes information about the patient's ideas about risk factors. Feelings about self and the hospitalization are assessed in the self-perception-self-concept pattern. Intensity of pain is part of the cognitive-perceptual pattern.

Immediate Surgery Is Planned for a Patient with Acute Abdominal