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NURS 3323: HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM #2 questions withcorrect answers
What are the 4 sources of pain? Describe each. Correct Answer-1)
referred
2) deep somatic
- Blood vessels, joints, tendons, muscles, and bone - Injury may result
from pressure, trauma, or ischemia
- Described as aching or throbbing
- Can be accompanied by nausea, sweating, tachycardia, and
hypertension.
- Examples: metastatic bone pain, torn or ruptured tendon, arthritis, post-
operative pain, sickle cell pain, ear infection.
3) somatic
- also known as superficial or cutaneous pain
- Skin surface and subcutaneous tissues
- Sharp, burning sensation Referred pain
- Examples: lacerations, burns
4) visceral
- Larger internal organs
- Stems from direct injury to organ or from stretching of organ from
tumor, ischemia, distention, or severe contraction - Pain impulses are
transmitted by ascending nerve fibers along with nerve fibers of
autonomic nervous system
- Presents with autonomic responses such as vomiting, nausea, pallor,
diaphoresis Deep somatic pain
,- Examples: kidney stone, labor pains, menstrual cramps, myocardial
infarction, cholecystitis.
What are the 3 types of pain? Know what each mean. Correct Answer-1)
acute- • Short-term and self-limiting:
- Often follows a predictable trajectory, and resolves after an injury
heals
• Self-protective purpose:
- Acute pain warns individual of actual or potential tissue damage
2) chronic- ???
3) breakthrough- Transient spike in pain level with moderate to severe
intensity in an otherwise controlled pain syndrome
In the initial pain assessment, what does PQRST stand for? What does
OLDCARTS stand for? Correct Answer-
What is the brief pain inventory? Correct Answer-
What is the short form Mcgill questionnaire? Correct Answer-
What is the numeric rating scale? Correct Answer-
What is the verbal descriptor? Correct Answer-
What is the visual analog? Correct Answer-
, What is the simple descriptor scale? Correct Answer-
Developmental competence/Age-specific data in infants and children,
how does pain differ? Untreated pain can lead to high sensitivity to pain
later in life. Correct Answer-
Developmental competence/Age-specific data in infants and children,
who is the Faces pain scale for? Who is the CRIES pain scale for? Who
is the FLACC pain scale used on? Correct Answer-
Premature infants are more sensitive to what? Correct Answer-more
sensitive to pain
Developmental competence/Age-specific data in older adults, PAINAD
scale, is used on who and why? Correct Answer-
What are some nonverbal signs of acute pain? Correct Answer-guarding,
grimacing, moaning, diaphoresis, tachycardia, hypertension
What are some nonverbal signs of chronic pain? What is the pain scale
NVPS? Correct Answer-bracing, rubbing, sighing, appetite changes,
lower activity
In abnormal findings, what is peripheral neuropathy and what disease
process is it associated with? Correct Answer-
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