titmouse
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You ask the patient a question and they just laugh at you. Granted the old man is confused but to give a pain scale from 1-10 is not that hard.
Some people have real trouble with that question. Others calmly tell you 10/10.
For those people. I use the faces pain scale. Someone tells me 9/10 pain when it's an obvious exaggeration, I give them a score of one or two using FACES. Otherwise, QA/QI wants to know why I didn't medicate the 9/10 pain.
You ask the patient a question and they just laugh at you. Granted the old man is confused but to give a pain scale from 1-10 is not that hard.