Advanced Med-Surg Principles Jersey College Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) What during labor increases the risk of neonate aquiring acute encephalitis? - Correct Answers ✅active herpes simplex virus-2 How do you administer meds? - Correct Answers ✅starting with the lowest dose and titrating up slowly What is pain is associated with? - Correct Answers ✅actual or potential tissue damage When pain stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, what does it result in? - Correct Answers ✅- increase in BP
- increase in HR
- increase in RR
- decreases insulin secretion 1 / 4
Where are catecholamines released from? - Correct Answers ✅adrenal medulla Where are steroid hormones (cortisol & aldosterone) released from? - Correct Answers ✅adrenal cortex What does unrelieved pain lead to? - Correct Answers ✅- increases glucagon production
Advanced Med-Surg Principles Jersey College Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)
- depress immune function
- can lead to addictive behaviors
What initiates inflammation, contributes to tissue sweeling, and pain? - Correct Answers ✅Prostaglandins What can nerve root injury lead to? - Correct Answers ✅allodynia (pain that is associated with non-noxious stimuli) What is needed for renal blood flow? - Correct Answers ✅Prostaglandin Pain is? - Correct Answers ✅whatever the patient says it is What is the single most reliable indicator of pain? - Correct Answers ✅the patient's self-report How do NSAID's preimarily produce pain relief? - Correct Answers ✅by preventing prostaglandin formation What does acetaminphen not have? - Correct Answers ✅any inflammatory properties 2 / 4
Advanced Med-Surg Principles Jersey College Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) What do you manage nociceptive pain with? - Correct Answers ✅- local anesthetics
- non-opioids
- opioids
- Correct Answers ✅no pain
- type (intensity/assoc factors/influencing fators)
- location 3 / 4
What does 0 on the 0 - 10 numeric pain rating scale indicate?
What does the Wong-Baker FACES pain scale consist of? - Correct Answers ✅cartoon faces that the patient (ages 3 and up) selects to report thier pain level What does the visual analog 10cm scale represent? - Correct Answers ✅no pain to the worst pain, the patient marks a spot somewhere in between indicating their pain level What pain scale helps indiviuals describe the intensity of pain? - Correct Answers ✅verbal descriptor scale What does a comprehensive pain assessment consist of? - Correct Answers ✅- duration (when it started/lasted)
Advanced Med-Surg Principles Jersey College Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) What patients do we avoid the rectal route for med administration? - Correct Answers ✅thrombocytopenic What type of effect do topical agents produce? - Correct Answers ✅local What type of effect do transdermal agents produce? - Correct Answers ✅drug absorption into the systemic circulation What would help reduce complications related to pain for patients? - Correct Answers ✅provide a PCA How do we administer around the clock pain relief for post-op and chronic pain? - Correct Answers ✅provide analgesics, never wait for chronic pain to reoccur What is provided for mild to moderate pain? - Correct Answers ✅aspirin or acetaminaphen What is provided for moderate pain? - Correct Answers ✅NSAID's What is provided for severe pain? - Correct Answers ✅morphine
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