The mother of a 16-year-old girl calls the emergency department, suspecting her daughter's abdominal pain may be appendicitis. in addition to pain, her daughter has a temperature of 100° f (37.7°

c. and has vomited twice. what should the nurse tell the mother?

the nurse should initially obtain the history of the abdominal pain of the child such as the provocative factors or what makes the pain worse, palliative factors or what makes the main better, quality or description of pain, region or where the pain is from, severity, and temporal factors or does the intensity of pain change with time.