Terms To Know Flashcards
Analgesia that includes combination or opioid and non-opioid analgesic drugs that act at different sites within the central and peripheral nervous systems in effort to minimize opioid use, therefore decreasing opioid related side effects
Balanced (multimodal) analgesia
A written defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression.
Libel
Making a false and damaging statement about someone. Damaging to their reputation
Slander
Technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. Administered by “laying on hands” and based on idea that unseen “life force energy” flows through us
Reiki
Signs of this include anger, persistently seeking new providers, hoarding of analgesics and requesting extra opioids for fear of running out.
Pseudo addiction
Behaviors are eliminated with this when pain is controlled.
Pseudo addiction
When a nurse makes a derogatory statement about a patient to a third party
Slander
condition where a stimulus that is ordinarily painless is perceived as painful
allodynia
refers to irregular unpleasant and abnormal sensations on or under the skin, often in response to normal stimuli or touch. Feelings of numbness, tingling, prickly, burning or cutting pain on skin all included
dysesthesia
after peripheral nociceptors are activated by noxious stimuli, the stimulus is changed into electrical impulses - this is what step of pain process
transduction
the “right” of self-determination or to decide what happens to one’s body is referred to as
autonomy
this requires that we contribute to patients’ welfare; we have a moral obligation to act for the benefit of others
beneficence
the ethical principle of justice requires that individuals are treated in a fair manner
justice
the ethical principle that obliges one to tell the truth and not to lie or to deceive others
veracity
principal to do no harm
Non - malficience
