| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A patient asks the nurse where nociceptors can be found. How should the nurse respond? One location in which nociceptors can be found is the: | Skin |
| A nurse is discussing an individual’s conditioned or learned approach or avoidance behavior in response to pain. Which system is the nurse describing? | Affective-motivational system |
| A 5-year-old female breaks her leg after falling from a merry-go-round. Which of the following would be released from the midbrain to modulate her pain? | Dynorphin |
| A nurse should document on the chart that chronic pain is occurring when the patient reports the pain has lasted longer than: | 3 to 6 months |
| When planning care for a child in pain, which principle should the nurse remember? The pain threshold in children is _____ that of adults. | Lower than |
| When the nurse is taking a patient’s temperature, which principle should the nurse remember? Regulation of body temperature primarily occurs in the: | Hypothalamus |
| When the nurse is discussing the patient’s cyclical temperature fluctuation occurring on a daily basis, what term should the nurse use? | Circadian rhythm |
| A nurse wants to teach about one of the primary organs responsible for heat production. Which organ should the nurse include? | Adrenal gland |
| Which statement by a patient indicates teaching was successful for heat loss? Heat loss from the body via convection occurs by: | Transfer of heat through currents of liquids or gas |
| For evaporation to function effectively as a means of dissipating excess body heat, which one of the following conditions must be present? | Moisture |
| When a patient has a fever, which of the following thermoregulatory mechanisms is activated? | The body’s thermostat is reset to a higher level. |
| Which finding indicates the patient is having complications from heat stroke? | Cerebral edema and degeneration of the CNS |
| For which patient would the primary care provider order therapeutic hypothermia? A patient with: | Reimplantation surgery |
| During the sleep cycle, when does loss of temperature control occur? | REM sleep |
| A patient asks the nurse how often REM sleep occurs. How should the nurse respond? About every _____ minutes. | 90 |
| A patient has increased intraocular pressure. Which diagnosis will the nurse observe on the chart? | Glaucoma |
| Which group of people is most prone to red-green color blindness? | Males |
| A nurse is teaching about the structure that connects the middle ear with the pharynx. Which structure is the nurse describing? | Eustachian tube |
| The most common form of sensorineural hearing loss in the elderly is: | Presbycusis |
| A 15-year-old female is diagnosed with an outer ear infection. Which of the following is most likely to cause this infection? | Escherichia coli |
| The nurse would expect the patient with an alteration in proprioception to experience vertigo which is manifested by: | A sensation that the room is spinning |
| Which system modulates a patient’s perception of pain? | Cognitive-evaluative system |
| Fever of unknown origin (FUO) is characterized by a fever of ____° F or greater | 101 |
| Perceptual dominance | Pain at one location may cause an increase in the threshold in another location= |
| Morphinelike neuropeptides | |
| Enkephalins |
