NURS 6512 Week 7 Quiz (Version 1)
You are caring for a patient with trigeminal neuralgia. During the assessment, the patient would
describe the pain as:
- throbbing and dull.
- burning or shocklike.
- tender and deep.
- cramping and spasmodic.
Ms. Green is an 85-year-old female patient with dementia who presents to the emergency department with her daughter because of a change in function. Which pain assessment scale would be the best choice?
- Oucher Scale
- Checklist for Nonverbal Pain Indicators
- Wong/Baker Rating Scale
- CRIES Scale
Body language that leads you to suspect the person is in pain is:
- talkative, verbose speech.
- fretful hand movements.
- focused, fixed eye stares.
- marked salivation.
What is considered the gold standard diagnostic radiology test for appendicitis? 1 / 2
Thin cut CT
CBC with diff
Abdominal ultrasound
Barium enema
Pulsusparadoxus greater than 20 mm Hg, tachycardia greater than 130 beats per minute, and
increasing dyspnea are signs of:
intracranial pressure.
pulmonary hypertension.
statusasthmaticus.
tetanic contractions.
drug overdose.
A 5-year-old is complaining of nondescriptive "belly pain." Your next action should be to ask
him to:
- point a finger to the spot that hurts.
- draw a circle around the area that hurts.
- use a metaphor to describe the pain.
- identify how pain medication affects the pain.
You ask the patient to raise the head and shoulders while lying in a supine position. A midline
abdominal ridge rises. You chart this observation as a(n):
small inguinal hernia.
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