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Nursing Pains
Pain Management
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the definition of pain? | An unpleasant subjective sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage |
| Providing Pain relief is | A basic human right |
| What responsibility does the nurse have in pain management? | Nurses are legally and ethically responsible for managing pain and relieving suffering. |
| What is pain? | Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does |
| What is Acute pain? | -short duration- identified cause- limited damage- limited emotional response-resolves after healing. |
| What is Chronic pain? | -last longer than 6 months- constant and recurring- mild to severe intensity- may not have an identifiable cause- personal suffering |
| What are some complications with Chronic pain? | -frustration due to no cause- disability- over use of narcotics- doctor shopping- pseudoaddiction |
| What is Chronic episodic pain? | occurs intermittently of time- EX: migraines, sickle cell |
| What is Cancer pain? | Not all cancer pt experience pain. Some cancer pain is acute, some chronic, usually related to tumor growth |
| What types of Cancer pain? | Nocioceptive -Somatic= musculoskeletal pain -visceral= internal organ pain |
| What is somatic pain? | aching, throbbing, well localized pain |
| What is visceral pain? | Aching, fair localization with organ capsules; cramping and poorly localized pain with obstruction of organs Nocioceptive pain responds well to opioids and/or nonopioids |
| What is neuropathic pain? | results from altered sensation by peripheral or central nervous system -effectively managed by analgesics Examples include phantom pain, neuropathy, nerve compression |
| What is referred pain? | pain felt distant to the actual site of pain May have multiple characteristics Example: Myocardial infarction which may result in pain down one or both arms, neck or back |
| What is idiopathic pain? | Chronic pain without identifiable physical or psychological cause or pain that is perceived as excessive for the extent of an organic pathological condition Example: complex regional pain syndrome |
| What is a pain threshold? | The point where the individual feels pain |
| What is pain tolerance? | is the point at which an individual is not willing to accept pain of any greater severity or duration. |
| What are the types of pain stimulus? | Thermal, chemical, mechanical. |
| The energy produced my a stimuli is converted to energy by | tranduction |
| An impluse reaches a sensory peripheral nerve fiber called a | nociceptor |
| Transmission of a stimulus is complete when the pain impulse is sent to the pain receptors and then.... | initiate a responce |
| What is the process of normal, nocioceptive pain? | Transduction-transmission-perception- modulation |
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dgreen158
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