Your child is extremely upset following a cleft palate repair. What is the best way to comfort your child? a. pacifierb. rock/swaddle in favorite blanketc. place child on stomach
Editorial Team / Admin Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN 6 Articles; 11,343 Posts Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development. Has 18 years experience. Dec 3, 2014 What are your thoughts? AN is happy to help with homework or other questions, but we will not just outright do the work and give you the answer. Which one do you think it is and why?
mhy12784 565 Posts Dec 4, 2014 Well if its a nursing question, shouldnt the answer be rate their pain on a scale of 1-10, and then proceed to administer narcotics?
loveofrn, BSN, RN 347 Posts Specializes in MICU. Has 3 years experience. Dec 4, 2014 Your child is extremely upset following a cleft palate repair. What is the best way to comfort your child? a. pacifierb. rock/swaddle in favorite blanketc. place child on stomachHere is my breakdownYou cant put an object on the child's mouth because the child is just recovering from surgery. so thiis is a no-noI will go with B because of the word "favorite blanket"
klone, MSN, RN 14,490 Posts Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership. Has 17 years experience. Dec 4, 2014 Here is my breakdownYou cant put an object on the child's mouth because the child is just recovering from surgery. so thiis is a no-noI will go with B because of the word "favorite blanket"You're not supposed to give the answer. You're supposed to help the OP figure out the answer on their own.
KelRN215, BSN, RN 1 Article; 7,349 Posts Specializes in Pedi. Has 16 years experience. Dec 4, 2014 Well if its a nursing question, shouldnt the answer be rate their pain on a scale of 1-10, and then proceed to administer narcotics?Not necessarily. The question says the baby is upset. Babies cry for reasons other than pain. Maybe he was already medicated in the PACU. We don't know. Babies also can't rate their pain on a 0-10 scale. You COULD use the FLACC scale to assess pain. Again, the question doesn't even say that narcotics were prescribed for this baby. Don't make up parts of the scenario that aren't there. With the given choices, only one is correct.
flyersfan88 449 Posts Specializes in Trauma, Orthopedics. Dec 4, 2014 Not necessarily. The question says the baby is upset. Babies cry for reasons other than pain. Maybe he was already medicated in the PACU. We don't know. Babies also can't rate their pain on a 0-10 scale. You COULD use the FLACC scale to assess pain. Again, the question doesn't even say that narcotics were prescribed for this baby. Don't make up parts of the scenario that aren't there. With the given choices, only one is correct.I think it was supposed to be a very tongue in cheek response...
Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN 4 Articles; 20,908 Posts Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma. Has 43 years experience. Dec 4, 2014 Welcome!Loveofrn has been very nice and given you the answer. However allnurses strives to help you be the best nurse you can be and we ask all students to tell us what they think first.