An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage?
What is pain?
100
Intense, unpleasant sensation of short duration, lasting less than 6 months
What is acute pain?
100
May last from a few minutes to a half an hour; dreaming occurs during this time
What is rapid-eye movement?
200
A stimulation of the sensory nerve endings that is harmful, injurious, or detrimental to public health
What is noxious?
200
Pain that is felt at a site other than in the injured or diseased organ or part of the body
What is referred pain?
200
the state at which a person is mentally relaxed, free from worry, and is physically calm
What is rest?
300
Any one of the neuropeptides composed of many amino acids, elaborated by the pituitary gland and acting on the central and peripheral systems to reduce pain
What is endorphins?
300
A drug delivery system that dispenses a preset intravenous dose of an opioid analgesic into a patient's vein when the patient pushes a switch on an electric cord
What is patient-controlled analgesia?
300
Divided into four stages through which a sleeper progresses during a typical sleeping cycles; represents three fourths of a period of typical sleep
What is non-rapid eye movement?
400
Action of two or more substances or organs to achieve an effect of which each is capable
What is synergistic?
400
pain relief intervention that stimulates large cutaneous nerve fibers to "close the gate"
What is transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator (TENS)?
400
Name five factors affecting sleep
What is physical illness, anxiety and depression, drugs and substances, lifestyle, sleep patterns, stress, environment, exercise and fatigue, and nutrition