Study Guide

Question 1

What are the nurses role in administering analgesics?

Answer 1

Determine whether to give the med and which med to give

Assess the clients response to the medication along with effectiveness and pain relief and any side effects

ReportTo the doctor when change is needed

Teach the client and family the use of medications

Question 2

What does PQRST stand for?

Answer 2

Provokes (what’s provokes pain)

Quality of pain

Region located

Severity of pain

Timing (onset, duration)

Question 3

How might cultural factors relate to pain management?

Answer 3

Some cultures tolerate pain in silence and others expressed pain with physical and emotional responses

Question 4

The client may report the level of pain based on what

Answer 4

Cultural and experimental background

Question 5

What are different types of analgesics for client use?

Answer 5

Nonopiod
For mild to moderate pain
(Tylonal, salicylates, NSAIDs)

Opioid
Severe pain
(Patient controlled-intravenous, epidurals- Intraspinal Anesthesia, subconscious, transdermal)
Local anesthethia

Adjuvants

Question 6

What type of respiratory patterns are not unusual during sleep in the elderly when given opioid analgesia

Answer 6

Cheyenne stokes

Question 7

What are the underlying causes of someone experiencing respiratory or metallic acidosis or alkalosis

What should you assess in the patient experiencing this?

Answer 7

Trumatic disorders such as pneumonia thorax and hemothorax were the long tissue is compressed and eventually collapse

Assess the clients level of consciousness and mental status

The clients color, respiratory effort, chest wall movement
Man in cyanosis me a curb

Question 8

What are the regulators of electrolyte imbalance

Answer 8

Buffers, respirations, renal control of hydrogen ion concentration