The nurse uses comfort measures to enhance an older person's pharmacological pain management.Which should the nurse use to identify relationships between comfort measures, pharmacotherapy, and the older person's pain level?

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An older person's pain diary would be the best choice because it would allow the nurse to see how the comfort measures and pharmacotherapy are impacting the person's pain level over time. It would also allow the nurse to track any trends or patterns in the person's pain and adjust their care plan accordingly. The other options (self-report, visual analogue scale, and pain medication frequency) may provide some information, but they would not give as holistic and detailed of a picture as a pain diary.

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