A nurse assesses a postoperative patient two days after chest surgery. what findings indicate that the patient requires better pain management (select all that

These findings indicate that the patient require a better pain management:

1. Confusion

2. Poor cough

3. Shallow breathing

4. Elevated temperature effort.

Poor pain control can result in confusion as a result of hypo ventilation and inadequate sleep. It can also reduce tidal volume and cough efforts, this in turn may leads to other complications including elevated temperature.