Exam 13: Pain, Temperature, Sleep, and Sensory Function

Which group of people is most prone to red-green color blindness?

For which patient would the primary care provider order therapeutic hypothermia? A patient with:

For evaporation to function effectively as a means of dissipating excess body heat,which one of the following conditions must be present?

A patient asks the nurse how often REM sleep occurs.How should the nurse respond? About every _____ minutes.

When the nurse is taking a patient's temperature,which principle should the nurse remember? Regulation of body temperature primarily occurs in the:

Which statement by a patient indicates teaching was successful for heat loss? Heat loss from the body via convection occurs by:

During the sleep cycle,when does loss of temperature control occur?

A 15-year-old female is diagnosed with an outer ear infection.Which of the following is most likely to cause this infection?

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:

Which system modulates a patient's perception of pain?

The ophthalmologist is teaching about the structure of the eye that prevents light from scattering in the eye.What structure is the ophthalmologist describing?

A 50-year-old male cut his hand off while working in a sawmill.Several years later he still sporadically feels pain in the absent hand.What type of pain should the nurse document in the chart?

A 25-year-old female received a prescription for a weight loss pill.One effect of the pills is to increase the release of epinephrine.Which of the following would be expected to also occur?

A patient has researched exogenous pyrogens on the Internet.Which information indicates the patient has a good understanding? Exogenous pyrogens are:

A 10-year-old male sneaks into a meat freezer at the local supermarket.Fearing he will get caught if he comes out,he decides to stay in there for several hours until the store closes.While in the cooler his body is most likely experiencing:

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?

A nurse should document on the chart that chronic pain is occurring when the patient reports the pain has lasted longer than:

A nurse wants to teach about one of the primary organs responsible for heat production.Which organ should the nurse include?

Hikers are attempting to cross the Arizona desert with a small supply of water.The temperatures cause them to sweat profusely and become dehydrated.The hikers are experiencing:

A nurse is discussing an individual's conditioned or learned approach or avoidance behavior in response to pain.Which system is the nurse describing?