A patient who has had cancer for 1 year uses a fentanyl tran…

A patient who has had cancer for 1 year uses a fentanyl transdermal patch for pain relief. The patient reports having 3 or 4 episodes of pain (which she rates as 8 or 9 on a scale of 1 to 10) each day, and each episode lasts about 30 minutes. The nurse will contact the provider to: