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to sooth in distress or sorrow, console.
relief from distress, a stae or thing that provides ease or quiet enjoyment |
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 |
reffered page
taylor 1371 |
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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 |
phantom
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pain results from a mental event or no physical cause can be identified
ex) death, loss |
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 |
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
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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 |
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
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