Question

A home care nurse is planning to use non pharmacological pain relief measures for an older client who has severe chronic back pain. Which of the following guidelines should the nurse use?

1. Use imagery with clients who have difficulty with focus and concentration  (REQUIRES AN ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE)
2. Pain relief from the use of heat and cold continues for several hours after removal of the stimulus
3. Discontinue opioids before trying non pharmacological methods of pain relief
4. Distraction changes the client's perception of pain but does not affect the cause

Answer 1

ANSWER: B

REASON:

Pain relief from the use of heat and cold continues for several hours after removal of the stimulus is the non-pharmacological pain relief measures for the client with chronic back pain. The other given options are not appropriate. Here the client is having chronic back pain so the distraction technique will not support to decrease the chronic pain. The use of imagery in older clients is not so efficient in the presence of chronic back pain. Discontinue opioid before trying non-pharmacological methods of pain relief will not help to reduce the pain and they didn't specify the non-pharmacological measure. So the answer is pain relief from the use of heat and cold for several hours will help to reduce the pain level.