Pain Management
A form of chronic pain without a known cause, or pain that exceeds typical pain levels associated with the client’s condition.
What is idiopathic pain?
Acupuncture, breath work, biofeedback, art therapy, meditation, guided imagery, yoga, psychotherapy, tai chi.
What is Mind-Body Therapies?
The fiber requirement for a healthy diet.
What is 25 to 38g/day?
4 to 5 years of age
When do children achieve full bladder control?
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what are clocks and calendars?
A serious complication and can lead to increased anxiety with acute pain and depression with chronic pain.
What is undertreatment of pain?
Reiki, therapeutic touch, magnet therapy.
What is Energy Therapies?
Engorged, dilated blood vessels in the rectal wall from difficult defecation, pregnancy, liver disease, and heart failure
What are Hemorrhoids?
An incontinent urinary diversion in which the surgeon attaches a tube from the renal pelvis via a stoma to the surface of the abdominal wall.
What is a Nephrostomy?
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What is covering your mouth?
Cognitive-behavioral measures, imagery, cutaneous skin stimulation, distraction, acupuncture and acupressure, elevation of edematous extremities, and relaxation.
What are non-pharmacological pain management strategies?
Which herbal remedy product enhances immunity?
What is Echinacea?
Intestinal obstruction caused by reduced motlitly following bowel manipulation during surgery, electrolyte imbalance, wound infection, or by the effects of medication.
What is a Paralytic ileus?
Age, Pregnancy, Diet, Immobility, Psychosocial factors, Pain, Surgical procedures, Medications
What are factors affecting Urinary Elimination?
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What is describing the arrangement of the food on the tray?
Constipation, urinary retention, orthostatic hypotension, nausea/vomiting, respiratory depression, sedation.
What are adverse effects of opioid use?
Which herbal remedy product inhibits platelet aggregation?
What is Garlic?
Viral gastroenteritis, Bacterial gastroenteritis, Antibiotic therapy, Inflammatory bowel disease, Irritable bowel syndrome
What are the causes of Diarrhea?
Allergy to shellfish
What is a contraindication to the Intravenous pyelogram contrast medium?
Structural eye disorder which causes an increase in intraocular pressure
What is Glaucoma?
Arises from damage to or inflammation of tissue, which is a noxious stimulus that triggers the pain receptors; it is usually throbbing, aching and localized
What is nociceptive pain?
Which herbal remedy product increases physical endurance?
What is Ginseng?
Adequate fiber in diet, Adequate fluid intake, Adequate activity (15-20 min/day)
What are the ways to promote regular bowel elimination?
Stress, Urge, Overflow, Reflex, Functional, Transient
What are the major types of Urinary incontinence?
These amplify sounds, but do not help clients interpret what they hear.
What are hearing aids?