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Clinical Nursing Skills

Check Your Understanding Questions

Clinical Nursing SkillsCheck Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

1 .
Describe the steps of how a pain stimulus travels to and is perceived by the brain.
Review the following examples of behavioral responses to pain and identify which type of behavioral response is being demonstrated.
2 .
An infant crying in their mother’s arms after being fed and changed.
3 .
A patient sitting in the waiting room with their eyes closed and jaw clenched.
4 .
A patient complaining of knee pain but refusing to let the nurse examine the knee.
5 .
When conducting a thorough pain assessment, what questions should be asked in addition to using a numeric rating scale?
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