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A patient with diabetes mellitus has just undergone a right, below-the-knee amputation following gangrene infection. A few days post-op, the patient confides in the nurse that he still feels his right foot.
 
  Knowing the pathophysiologic principles behind this, the nurse can
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  administer a psychotropic medication to help the patient cope with the loss of his leg.
  B)
  explain that many amputees have this sensation and that one theory surmises that the end of a regenerating nerve becomes trapped in the scar tissue of the amputation site.
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  call the physician and ask him for an order for a psychological consult.
  D)
  educate the patient that this area has an usually abnormal increase in sensitivity to sensation but that it will go away with time.
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