STUVIA 2024/2025
AM and PM Care and Pain Management Quiz
All of the above - ✔✔What is the purpose of a pain scale?
Ask the patient directly - ✔✔What is the best way to determine if a patient is in pain?
Calm and soothing - ✔✔Which approach is best when helping patients with PM care?
Gentle, but firm and circular - ✔✔When performing a backrub, how should the strokes be
performed?
Melanie should be pleasant, but respectfully quiet until Mr. Harris is fully awake. - ✔✔Melanie, an
assistant, is a "morning person." Her patient, Mr. Harris, is definitely not. How should Melanie perform
AM care for Mr. Harris?
Once a day - ✔✔How often should typical AM and PM care procedures be done?
Say the patient's name. - ✔✔How should patients be awakened?
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Scale with faces - ✔✔Which type of pain scale would be best used with young children?
Watch his body language and behavior for any sign of pain - ✔✔Mr. Yen says he is not in pain. What
should the assistant do next?
You decide what care to provide based on the patient's needs - ✔✔Which of the following is NOT
true of AM care?
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AM and PM Care and Pain Management Quiz
All of the above - ✔✔What is the purpose of a pain scale?
Ask the patient directly - ✔✔What is the best way to determine if a patient is in pain?
Calm and soothing - ✔✔Which approach is best when helping patients with PM care?
Gentle, but firm and circular - ✔✔When performing a backrub, how should the strokes be
performed?
Melanie should be pleasant, but respectfully quiet until Mr. Harris is fully awake. - ✔✔Melanie, an
assistant, is a "morning person." Her patient, Mr. Harris, is definitely not. How should Melanie perform
AM care for Mr. Harris?
Once a day - ✔✔How often should typical AM and PM care procedures be done?
Say the patient's name. - ✔✔How should patients be awakened?
%
Scale with faces - ✔✔Which type of pain scale would be best used with young children?
Watch his body language and behavior for any sign of pain - ✔✔Mr. Yen says he is not in pain. What
should the assistant do next?
You decide what care to provide based on the patient's needs - ✔✔Which of the following is NOT
true of AM care?
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