NUR 275 PAINMANAGEMENT & THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC Exam Questions With Correct And Revised Answers
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NUR 275
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NUR 275
NUR 275 PAINMANAGEMENT & THE
OPIOID EPIDEMIC Exam Questions With
Correct And Revised Answers
What is pain? - answer• Universal
• Personal
• Unpleasant Emotional & Sensory Experience resulting from actual or possible damage to
tissues and is uniquely experienced and described by each per...
NUR 275 PAINMANAGEMENT & THE
OPIOID EPIDEMIC Exam Questions With
Correct And Revised Answers
What is pain? - answer✔✔• Universal
• Personal
• Unpleasant Emotional & Sensory Experience resulting from actual or possible damage to
tissues and is uniquely experienced and described by each person.
• #1 reason for seeking healthcare
• Significant public health problem
Acute Pain - answer✔✔Involves tissue damage as a result of surgery, trauma, burn or
venipuncture for a short duration and resolves with normal healing.
Chronic Pain - answer✔✔A.K.A. Persistent pain
Subcategorized as being of cancer (malignant) or non-cancer (non-malignant) origin and can
persist throughout the course of a persons life.
Ex. of noncancer chronic pain (NON-malignant) - answer✔✔Peripheral neuropathy from
diabetes
Back or neck pain after injury
Osteoporosis from joint degeneration
Ex. of conditions causing both chronic and acute pain - answer✔✔Cancer
Patients experience continuous chronic pain and also more acute exacerbations of pain
periodically called breakthrough pain.
Nociceptive Pain (physiologic) - answer✔✔Refers to normal functioning of physiological
systems that leads to the perception of noxious stimuli (tissue injury) as being painful.
• Cutaneous (skin) rashes
• Somatic (organs)
• Visceral (musculoskeletal)
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