Check Your Understanding Questions
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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
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An infant crying in their mother’s arms after being fed and changed.
3
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A patient sitting in the waiting room with their eyes closed and jaw clenched.
4
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A patient complaining of knee pain but refusing to let the nurse examine the knee.
5
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When conducting a thorough pain assessment, what questions should be asked in addition to using a numeric rating scale?