Question

When performing pain assessment, the nurse shows a series of photographs to a child and asks the child to point to the face that shows how he or she feels. which pain-rating scale is the nurse using for pain assessment?

Answer 1

She is using a chart that has a pain level from 1 to 10 and 10 is the worst that helps the child understand because it has smiley faces and sad faces to see what is hurting him the worst!