Exam 14: Pain, Temperature, Sleep, and Sensory Function

A child suffers from sudden apparent arousals in which she expresses intense fear or other emotions. Her mother reports that she seems to wake screaming, but that she is difficult to waken completely. The child most likely suffers from:

Most memorable dreams occur during which sleep phase?

Which group of people is most prone to colour blindness?

Which system is able to modulate a patient's perception of pain?

When planning care for a child in pain, which principle should the nurse remember? The pain threshold in children is _____ that of adults.

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

Which condition would be treated with therapeutic hypothermia?

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

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

Several years after an amputation the patient continues to sporadically feel pain in the absent hand. What type of pain should the nurse document in the chart?

A young child presents to the ophthalmologist for visual difficulties secondary to eye deviation. One of the child's eyes deviates inward, thereby decreasing the visual field. Which of the following diagnoses is most likely?

When the nurse is discussing the patient's cyclical temperature fluctuation occurring on a daily basis, what term should the nurse use?

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

Where does the regulation of body temperature primarily occur?

A patient has increased intraocular pressure. Which diagnosis will the nurse observe on the chart?

What might be a result of prolonged exposure to a cold environment?

When a patient has a fever, which of the following thermoregulatory mechanisms is activated?