NSG 100 – Comfort, Sleep, and Rest Nursing Fundamentals Study
Guide and Review Notes
What is pain? - correct answer ✔✔unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated
with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage."
T/F: Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does -
correct answer ✔✔True
What are effects of unrelieved pain? - correct answer ✔✔o Prolonged stress response
o Reduced immune competence
o Cardiovascular instability
o Respiratory dysfunction
o Genitourinary disturbances
o Decreased gastrointestinal mobility
o Metabolic imbalance
o Developmental issues
o Increased chronic post-surgical pain syndromes
What are the different types of pain? - correct answer ✔✔o Acute Pain (post injury, less than a
month)
o Chronic Pain (post injury and last months or lifetime/ associated with a disease process)
o Nociceptive- Somatic (musculoskeletal; ex: post-operative pain, osteoarthritis pain)
o Nociceptive- Visceral (internal organs)
o Neuropathic (Associated with nerve damage)
Neuropathic pain is also known as... - correct answer ✔✔Pathological Pain
, What is neuropathic pain? - correct answer ✔✔Results from nerve injury, and the pain
continues even after the painful stimuli are gone
What causes neuropathic pain? - correct answer ✔✔Peripheral & Central Nerve Damage
What type of pain can be continuous or episodic? - correct answer ✔✔chronic pain
The patient describes the pain as "burning, aching, crushing, stabbing, shooting, tingling, or
numbing." The nurse knows the patient is describing what type of pain? - correct answer
✔✔Neuropathic pain
What are sources of neuropathic pain? - correct answer ✔✔neuropathies, tumors, infection,
and chemotherapy
What disease processes can cause neuropathic pain? - correct answer ✔✔diabetes mellitus,
cerebrovascular accident (brain attack/stroke), viral infections, carpal tunnel syndrome, and
phantom limb pain
What is plasticity? - correct answer ✔✔when a person has phantom pain but eventually the
brain adapts to the loss of the limb and the pain stops
What is the most common type of pain? - correct answer ✔✔nociceptive pain
What is nociceptive pain? - correct answer ✔✔Physical pain occurs when nociceptors are
stimulated in response to trauma, inflammation, or tissue damage from surgery
The patient describes their pain as " sharp, burning, aching, cramping, or stabbing." The nurse
knows this patient is experiencing what type of pain? - correct answer ✔✔Nociceptive Pain
Guide and Review Notes
What is pain? - correct answer ✔✔unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated
with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage."
T/F: Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does -
correct answer ✔✔True
What are effects of unrelieved pain? - correct answer ✔✔o Prolonged stress response
o Reduced immune competence
o Cardiovascular instability
o Respiratory dysfunction
o Genitourinary disturbances
o Decreased gastrointestinal mobility
o Metabolic imbalance
o Developmental issues
o Increased chronic post-surgical pain syndromes
What are the different types of pain? - correct answer ✔✔o Acute Pain (post injury, less than a
month)
o Chronic Pain (post injury and last months or lifetime/ associated with a disease process)
o Nociceptive- Somatic (musculoskeletal; ex: post-operative pain, osteoarthritis pain)
o Nociceptive- Visceral (internal organs)
o Neuropathic (Associated with nerve damage)
Neuropathic pain is also known as... - correct answer ✔✔Pathological Pain
, What is neuropathic pain? - correct answer ✔✔Results from nerve injury, and the pain
continues even after the painful stimuli are gone
What causes neuropathic pain? - correct answer ✔✔Peripheral & Central Nerve Damage
What type of pain can be continuous or episodic? - correct answer ✔✔chronic pain
The patient describes the pain as "burning, aching, crushing, stabbing, shooting, tingling, or
numbing." The nurse knows the patient is describing what type of pain? - correct answer
✔✔Neuropathic pain
What are sources of neuropathic pain? - correct answer ✔✔neuropathies, tumors, infection,
and chemotherapy
What disease processes can cause neuropathic pain? - correct answer ✔✔diabetes mellitus,
cerebrovascular accident (brain attack/stroke), viral infections, carpal tunnel syndrome, and
phantom limb pain
What is plasticity? - correct answer ✔✔when a person has phantom pain but eventually the
brain adapts to the loss of the limb and the pain stops
What is the most common type of pain? - correct answer ✔✔nociceptive pain
What is nociceptive pain? - correct answer ✔✔Physical pain occurs when nociceptors are
stimulated in response to trauma, inflammation, or tissue damage from surgery
The patient describes their pain as " sharp, burning, aching, cramping, or stabbing." The nurse
knows this patient is experiencing what type of pain? - correct answer ✔✔Nociceptive Pain
