Nursing Process Pain Assessment & Intervention
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barnacle89 on September 1, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Pain | An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage |
| What is pain classified as? | Acute or Chronic |
| Chronic Malignant Pain | associated with cancer |
| Chronic nonmalignant | caused by a progressive disease disorder or an injury |
| Intractable Pain | a type of chronic pain that is extremely difficult to relieve despite multiple types of interventions |
| Nociceptive Pain | caused by a stimulus due to the damage of normal tissues or has the potential to do so |
| Somatic Pain | Pain that comes from bones, joints, muscle, skin, or connective tissue |
| Visceral Pain | results from simulation of pain receptors in the abdomen, cranium, and thorax |
| Neuropathic pain | results from a disturbance of the peripheral or central nervous system that recults in the production of pain that may or may not be associated with ongoing tissue damamging process |
| Centrally generated pain | from injur to either the peripheral or central nervus system |
| Peripherally generated pain | usually associated with a peripheral nerve injury or degeneration condition |
| Radiate Pain | perceived at the source of the pain and extends to nearby tissues typically r/t tissue or organ hypoxia |
| Referred Pain | felt in a part of the body that is considerably removed from the tissues causing the pain typically r/t to nerve tracts |
| Phantom Pain | painful sensation perceived in a body part that is missing or paralyzed by a spinal cord injury |
| Pain Threshold | the least amount of pain stimulation a person requires in order to feel pain |
| Pain Tolerance | the maximum amount and duration of pain that an indiviual is willing to endure |
| Who puts the standards on assessment of pain in place? | JCAHO |
| Physiology of Pain | how pain is transmitted and perceived is still not completely understood |
| A-delta fibers | large diameter,myelinated and can rapidly transport information. Sharp, mechanical and thermal |
| C- fibers | small diameter, unmyelinated, transmit the impulse more slowly and mediate long lasting, burning stinging sensation |
| What do the primary sensory neurons detect? | tissue damage, touch, heat, cold, pain and pressure |
| Where are the primary sensory neurons located? | in the skin |
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