Exam 31: Pain, Comfort, and Sleep

A natural supplement that can enhance sleep for many people is:

A nurse explains that endorphins are capable of reducing pain:

A patient who has difficulty falling asleep at night because of anxiety over family problems asks if he should start taking sedative pills from the pharmacy to sleep better. The best advice to give this patient is that these pills can be used for:

A nurse removed a pain medication patch that has a metal clip before the patient goes to have a(n) _________.

The nurse outlines the four phases of nociceptive pain as: (Select all that apply.)

A sleeping patient has periodic pauses in breathing, then starts to breathe again. The nurse recognizes this sleep pattern is consistent with:

A pain scale FLACC is used in assessing pain in ________.

A patient is receiving an ice massage for relief of muscle spasms in the neck. The patient complains that the ice is making the pain worse. Most helpful response from the nurse would be:

___________ is considered to be the fifth vital sign.

A nurse caring for a patient with a Fentanyl patch assesses that the patient is abnormally sleepy, is slurring words and is unsteady when ambulating. The nurse should:

The suggestion by the nurse which is most helpful to a patient who complains of chronically not feeling rested after sleep would be:

The __________ is the theory that by stimulating large diameter nerve fibers pain is diminished or totally controlled.

The nurse assesses a patient's sleep for NREM (non-rapid-eye-movement) sleep because this sleep has the characteristics of:

The nurse attempts to help an 86 year old patient describe his pain because the nurse is aware the elderly do not express pain because they:(Select all that apply.)