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The nurse is planning to administer a pain medication to a patient who is two hours postoperative following bowel resection surgery. The patient has four standing orders for pain medication. The nurse should administer which medication based on this situation?
1. Select the one to be administered intravenously by patient demand and under patient control.
2. Select the one that will be given intramuscularly to work quickly.
3. Select the one that is ordered on a prn basis.
4. Select the one to be administered orally.
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1 -- Patient-controlled analgesia allows self-management of pain, and is a common postoperative method of administering pain medication. The advantages to this method are dose precision, timeliness, and convenience. Selecting an oral medication or a prn medication two hours after a major surgery would not be the most effective. The medication that is administered intramuscularly is not typically recommended for moderate-to-severe pain that will require more than one dose.
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