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[Verified Answer]: The nurse is caring for a 52 year old client…

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The nurse is caring for a 52 year old client who has experience a complex lower leg fracture that needed surgical repair and is now immobilized. The client is approximately 24 hr post operative and describes the pain as severe. The client has a history of anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, and exercise induced asthma. The client current home medication inclides an anti anxiety medication, antidepressant, and antihypertensive. The provider has not prescribeed these medications in the hospital. The nurse enters the client’s room to administer opioid pain medication and notes the clients is breathing rapidly, hyperventilating, reports feeling lightheaded, and has numbness of their hands and feet. The xlient struggles to stat, ‘my chest hurts’. The nurse further assesses the client and talks with the family present. The family states that they think the client is having anxiety attack because this is similar to how the client has responded previously during the anxiety attacks. The clients vital sigan are temperatue 99.2, HR 114, RR 38, and BP 160/90. Identit the relevent subjective and object assessment information related to the clienrs condition and place the findings in the assessement data.

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