pg. 1 NURS 234 Exam 1/ Practice Questions with Correct Verified Answers – Rated A+
How do pain impulses travel? - ANSWER - Up the spinal cord by way of the spinothalamic tract
How does pain stimulus enter the spinal cord? - ANSWER - Dorsal horns to grey matter
What are the physiological responses of pain? - ANSWER - Flight-or-flight Shock
What provides increased oxygen intake? - ANSWER - Dilation of bronchial tubes and increased respiratory rate
What provides increased oxygen transport? - ANSWER - Increased heart rate
What elevates BP with shift of blood suppy from periphery and viscera to skeletal muscles and brain? - ANSWER - Peripheral vasocontriction
What provides additional energy? - ANSWER - Increased blood glucose levels
What controls body temp during stress? - ANSWER - Diaphoresis
What prepares muscles for action? - ANSWER - Increased muscle tension
What affords better vision? - ANSWER - Dilation of pupils 1 / 2
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Pain - ANSWER - An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.
Comfort - ANSWER - A state of having basic human needs met, allowing for ease, relief, and transcendence.
Durations of pain - ANSWER - 1. Acute
- Chronic
- Combination
Nociceptive pain - ANSWER - 1. Somatic pain
- Visceral pain
- Referred pain
Neuropathic pain - ANSWER - 1. Centrally generated pain
- Peripherally generated pain
What are infants behavioral ques of pain? - ANSWER - 1. Guarding
- Crying
Non-pharmacological interventions - ANSWER - 1. massage
- Positioning and body alignment
- splinting
- thermal interventions
- mind-body therapies
- essential oils
- laughter
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