A burning sensation in the epigastric area is this type of pain
What is visceral pain?
100
The age when hearing changes begin.
What is 30 years old?
100
Where the sleep center is located in the body
What is the hypothalamus?
200
Cyclical, daily rhythms
What are circadian rhythms?
200
The fifth vital sign
What is pain?
200
The sense that allows a person to recognize an object's size, shape, and texture
What is stereognosis?
200
Taste and smell changes start at this age
What is 50 y.o.?
300
Two body fluids the RN can test for occult blood.
What is stool and gastric secretions?
300
When body restoration occurs.
What are Stages 1-4?
300
The first thing to do if you find your PCA patient lethargic and hard-do-arouse?
What is STOP THE INFUSION??
300
Of a waiter, computer programmer, construction worker, or welder; this job pses the LEAST risk for sensory alteration.
What is a waiter?
300
Ptosis, blurred vision, fine-motor clumsiness, confusion, decreased alertness and apathy.
What are symptoms of sleep deprivation?
400
The position in which to put a patient to administer an enema.
What is LEFT SIMS?
400
When brain restoration occirs
What is REM sleep?
400
Three classes of adjuvant pain medications
What is anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsive, sedative, muscle relaxant, antiemetic, etc.?
400
The sense that lets a person know where his body parts are without looking.
What is proprioception?
400
The difference between sensory deficit and sensory deprivation
What is a deficit in sensory reception and lack of sensory stimulation?
500
Drug usually given after a barium enema
What is a laxative??
500
The sleep phenomenon that includes somnambulism, bruxism, night terrors and nocturnal enuresis.
What are Parasomnias?
500
Concern with addiction, legal repercissions, overdose fear, inadequate pain assessment.
Name some Provider barriers to adequate pain control?
500
Lack of meaningful touch, dull/bland meals, limited conversation can lead to this
What is sensory deprivation?
500
A recent scourge of hospitals and nursing homes, this bacteria can be responsible for aillments ranging from mild diarrhea to severe colitis and sepsis.