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Your 32 year-old patient is one day post-op following an emergency appendectomy for a ruptured appendix. She tells you she is hurting and asks for pain medication. You check her medication administration record (MAR) and find an order for morphine 2.5-5 mg IV (intravenously) 43-4h (every 3-4 hours) prn (as needed) for pain. The record shows that she had a dose of pain medication 90 minutes ago. 1. What subjective and objective assessment data do you want to assess related to her pain? I 2. What class of drug does morphine belong to, and what is its mechanism of action? 3. What is the appropriate action for the nurse to take at this time? 4. If this were a chronic pain issue, what differences would you expect to find in your assessment? 5. What non-pharmacological nursing interventions can you as the nurse implement to assist this client with relief of their discomfort? 6. How will you know if the pharmacologic or non-pharmacologic measures you implemented have been effective - how/what will you monitor?