Chapter 31: Pain Practice Questions
A nurse is working in nursery and observes an infant crying after a procedure. Which action would be appropriate for the nurse to take? 1. Nothing, newborns are not as sensitive. 2. Place the infant under a warmer. 3. Administer oral sucrose. 4. Give a pain injection.
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How should the nurse classify pain that a patient with lung cancer is experiencing? 1. Cutaneous 2. Deep somatic 3. Visceral 4. Neuropathic
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A patient suddenly develops right-lower-quadrant pain, nausea, vomiting, and rebound tenderness. How should the nurse classify this patient's pain? 1. Acute 2. Chronic 3. Intractable 4. Neuropathic
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A patient who underwent left above-the-knee amputation reports pain in the left foot. The nurse should document this finding as what type of pain? 1. Psychogenic 2. Phantom 3. Referred 4. Radiating
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In which process do peripheral nerves carry the pain message to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord? 1. Transduction 2. Transmission 3. Perception 4. Modulation
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A patient reports using music therapy to help control the chronic pain. Music therapy works by prompting the release of endogenous opioids during which stage of the pain process? 1. Perception 2. Transduction 3. Transmission 4. Modulation
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