This type of pain lasts for more than 3-6 months, or persisting beyond the course of an acute disease, or after tissue healing is complete.
What is chronic pain?
100
This intervention causes vasoconstriction and can help prevent swelling and bleeding.
What is cold application?
100
This is the upper limit of tolerance to pain.
What is pain threshold?
100
These patients are less expressive of their pain and tend to “grin and bear it.” They also tend to withdraw socially.
What is stoic?
100
This can be described as a decrease in the effectiveness of an individual’s ventilatory function after opioid administration and is feared by many healthcare providers.
What is opioid induced respiratory distress?
200
This pain is felt in a missing limb.
What is phantom pain?
200
This pain intervention promotes circulation and speeds healing.
What is heat?
200
This is the pain scale that is used for nonverbal patients.
What is the FLACC scale?
200
These patients verbalize their expressions of pain, like to have people around, and expect others to react to their pain therefore validating their discomfort.
What is emotive?
200
When applying a hot or cold compress, this patient safety barrier must be used.
What is skin protection?
300
This type of pain extends beyond treated steady chronic pain.
What is breakthrough pain?
300
This medication type acts primarily in the peripheral tissues by interfering with the production of prostaglandins. Examples: Aspirin and ibuprofen.
What is NSAIDS?
300
This tool is used to quantify a verbal patients pain by using the numerical system of 0-10.
What is pain scale?
300
In this culture, religion prevails and they may not want their pain relieved because they believe it is an act of God and therefore something that should be endured.
What is the Mexican culture?
300
To eliminate errors related to PCA transfusions, this technique should be used between two nurses.
What is double check drug and dose?
400
This type of pain is limited to the back and thighs.
What is somatic pain?
400
This alternative pain management method provides cutaneous stimulation and relaxes muscles to reduce pain.
What is massage?
400
This type of pain assessment is used mostly for children 3 and older and uses faces.
What is the Wong-Baker pain rating scale?
400
These cultures may seek folk healers and use various herbs to relieve pain.
What are the Mexican and African cultures?
400
When administering sedatives, bed rails, assistance with ambulation, and hourly rounding are used to prevent this reported safety event.
What is patient falls?
500
This type of pain is caused by damage or disease that affects the nervous system.
What is neuropathic pain?
500
Non-opioids like Tylenol, Opioids (narcotics), and adjuvants
What are three types of analgesics?
500
This method of assessing pain accurately describes, assesses, and documents a patient’s pain.
What is the PQRST method?
500
In this culture, the reaction to pain is stoic since showing signs of emotions of pain is a sign of weakness in their character. They tend to suppress their pain, anger and anxiety and suffer quietly.
What is the Chinese culture?
500
Tachycardia, hypertension, tachypnea, and other harmful bodily responses are symptoms of this patient response after administering pain medication.