Fundamentals - Comfort

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to sooth in distress or sorrow, console.

relief from distress, a stae or thing that provides ease or quiet enjoyment

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comfort

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promoting pt comfort

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listen and observe
adjust environment
limit interruptions, allow rest
assist position changes
provdie with oralhygiene
ensure fluids
changedsoiled dressings
assist with walking
be courteous

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unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual and potential tissue damage

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pain

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pain is classified due to

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duration
locationsource
mode of transmission
etiology

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pain involved in skin or subcutaneous tissue (burning, pain)

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Cutaneous

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pain involving ligaments, bones, tendons, blood vessels nerves

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Somatic

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pain involves body organs in chset, head abdominen (internal organs)

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Visceral

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what is the 5th vital sign , a subjective systom indicating a person is experiencing a problem

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pain

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pain that travels

originate in one part of the body but percieved in an area distant from its point of origin.

ex) heart attack

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reffered page

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physical cause of pain resulting from injury to or abnormal function of nerves or nervous system

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Neuropathic

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Physical cause of pain resistant to therapy and intreventions

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Intractable

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physical pain without physiologic or pathologic substance

ex) amputation

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phantom

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pain results from a mental event or no physical cause can be identified

ex) death, loss

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Psychogenic

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activation of pain receptors(nociceptors, nerve endings) in response to impending or actual tissue injury

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transduction

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chemical stimuli, mechanical stimuli, thermal stimuli, electrical stimuli are all

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nociceptors

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direct injury to nerves - conversion of painful stimuli into electrical impules that travelf rom point of stimulus to the spinal cord

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neuropathic

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conduction along nerve pathways - common pathways used by sensory impulses coming from many places

transmited to brain
spinal cord ---> brain

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transmission

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a persons interpretation of pain, aweareness of characteristic of pain

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perception

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sensation of pain is inhibited or modified

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modulation

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the lowest intesity of a stimulus that causes the person to recongnize pain

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pain threshold

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the point beyond which a person is no longer willing to endure pain

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pain tolerance

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changing the pain thereshold within a certain range

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adaptation

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naturally present morphine like chemical reguloators in teh spinal cord and brain that alter perception of pain

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neuromodulators (endorphins)

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your body producting chemicals with analgestic properties is part of

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protective relex response

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what is affected by the severity of pain and the duration

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response

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patients have a right to effective pain assessment and treatment

t/f

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true

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patients who have difficulty communication, chidren, cognitivaly impaired patients and older adults should use what to show pain

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Pain Scale

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the higher the score the higher the pain

this behavior response to pain experience is known as the

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FLACC SCALE

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A Pharmaceutical agent that relieves pain, reduce persons perception of pain, alters persons response to discomfort is called

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analgesic

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examples of analgesic

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tylenol, antiinflammatory drugs, morphine, anti depressants, anxiety agents

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which statement best reflects the nurses assessment of the 5TH VITAL SIGN (pain)

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Are you experiencing any discomfort right now?

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abdominal pain that is hard to localize is called

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visceral pain

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pt complaining of pain in as ite different from where it originates is called

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referred pain

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protecting or guiding a painful area is a

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behavioral response

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to relieve pain, ryan thinks of a happy place this is called

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imagery

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severe pain that is resistant to relief measures

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intractable pain

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applying heating pad to area at intervals stimulate large fibers to

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close the gait and block pain

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managing flare up of pain is managed by increasing

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ATC meds bp meds

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nurses shoudl know that older pts with pain may

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deny having it due to independance

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chronic pain is most effecively relieved when analgesics are administed

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ATC around the clock meds

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a placebo to control pain is

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deceptive and unethical

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too much of a peidural analgesia can produce

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respiratoory depression

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when assesing a continuous opiod infusion, the nurse notifies dr when pt has

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sedation level of 4