Chapter 31: Pain Practice Questions/Exam TEST BANK FOR MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING 11TH EDITION IGNATAVICIUS

Chapter 31: Pain Practice Questions/Exam TEST
BANK FOR MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING 11TH
EDITION IGNATAVICIUS




A patient suddenly develops right-lower-quadrant
pain, nausea, vomiting, and rebound tenderness.
How should the nurse classify this patient's pain?
1.
Acute
2.
Chronic
3.
Intractable
4.
Neuropathic - answer-1

,How should the nurse classify pain that a patient
with lung cancer is experiencing?
1.
Cutaneous
2.
Deep somatic
3.
Visceral
4.
Neuropathic - answer-3


A patient who underwent left above-the-knee
amputation reports pain in the left foot. The nurse
should document this finding as what type of pain?
1.
Psychogenic

,2.
Phantom
3.
Referred
4.
Radiating - answer-2


A nurse is working in nursery and observes an infant
crying after a procedure. Which action would be
appropriate for the nurse to take?
1.
Nothing, newborns are not as sensitive.
2.
Place the infant under a warmer.
3.
Administer oral sucrose.

, 4.
Give a pain injection. - answer-3


In which process do peripheral nerves carry the pain
message to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord?
1.
Transduction
2.
Transmission
3.
Perception
4.
Modulation - answer-2


A patient reports using music therapy to help
control the chronic pain. Music therapy works by