A 10-year-old girl comes to the emergency department crying after being hit in the face by a baseball. The nurse will assess the pain on a scale of:
  1. 1-5 scale
  2. 1-10 scale
  3. 1-15 scale
  4. 1-20 scale
Explanation
Answer- B - The nurse will assess the pain on a scale of 1-10. Pain is a subjective feeling which depends on the individual's pain threshold and pain tolerance for a pain. But certainly onset of pain, its duration and its intensity does effects and so help in gradation of pain. The pain of being hit in the face by a baseball is assessed on a 1-10 scale.
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