1. Research examining how well pain is currently managed indicates that:

1. Practices adhere to current best practice guidelines
2. Nurses assess children’s pain appropriately
3. Non-drug methods of pain relief are routinely used
4. Practices do not conform to current best practice guidelines

2. To manage pain effectively the following activities need to be undertaken in this order:

1. Assessment, planning, implementation, re-evaluation
2. Implementation, assessment, planning, re-evaluation
3. Planning, assessment, implementation, re-evaluation
4. Re-evaluation, assessment, implementation, planning

3. Multimodal analgesia means:

1. Giving one analgesic drug at a time
2. Giving a mixture of oral and IV analgesic drugs at the same time
3. Administering two analgesics from the same family of drugs
4. Administering two or more analgesic drugs with different mechanisms of action together

4. Which of the following is NOT a common side-effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs?

1. Reduced platelet aggregation
2. Respiratory depression
3. Disrupted renal blood flow
4. Gastric irritation