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| What are one of the greatest challenges in nursing is what? | To provide comfort |
| What does comfort mean ? | To give strength and hope, to cheer, and to ease the grief, pain, or trouble of another |
| What is a vital aspect of nursing ? | Physical and psychological comfort |
| What are the many forms of lacking comfort ? | Anxiety grief headache pain powerless fear |
| What is helpful for planning nursing interventions ? | Actively listening |
| Knowing the possible elements of patient discomfort allows what ? | Recognition of discomfort signals even when the patient is not able too |
| List the following of behavioral characteristics of patients ? | Is self protective has narrowed focus: can't think anything else except for pain has impaired thoughts vital sign changes: bp is high/heart rate is higher/eye pupils big |
| What is noxious ? | Injurious to the physical health |
| What is pain ? | A warning to the body |
| What can pain cause ? | Fatigue decrease to cope with physically, emotionally, and mentally |
| Who believed every patient who says he or she is in pain ? | McCafferey and Passeros |
| Who knows where the patients pain is exact location is at ? | The patient that's in pain |
| Flooding the body with epinephrine and commonly referred to as ? | Flight-or-flight response |
| What can chronic pain be linked to ? | Arthritis, back injuries, fibromyalgia, accidents, or neurologic conditions |
| With chronic pain what do most patients develop ? | Low-self esteem change in social identity changes in role and social interaction |
| Fatigue, sleep disturbance, and depression ? | Synergistic |
| Pain suggest that pain impulses are regulated and even blocked by gating mechanisms located along the central nervous system ? | Gate control theory |
| What does the fifth vital sign indicate ? | The presence of pain known and raises awareness of the problem of unmanaged pain |
| Is a helpful way to discuss about reporting pain ? | Comparing the pain scale |
| Has harmful physical effects, such as increased oxygen demand, respiratory dysfunction, decreased gastrointestinal ? | Unrelieved pain |
| Erodes a patients trust in the health care system and possibly leads to setbacks and increased costs in treatment ? | Neglected pain |
| When calming the patient because of pain what do you ask for them to do ? | To image a relaxing moment or favorite memory to ease and distract them from the pain |
| Entails the use of a pocket-sized, battery-operated device that provides a continuous, mild electric current to the skin ? | Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) |
| Anything that enters the body ? | Invasive |
| Are nerve blocks, epidural analgesics, neurosurgical procedures, and acupuncture ? | Invasive techniques |
| What is the maximum recommended dosage of acetaminophen is what ? | 4000 mg (4 g) in 24 hours |
| The danger of morphine and other opioid analgesics is their potential to cause what ? | Depression of vital nervous system functions |