Exam 13: Pain, Temperature, Sleep, and Sensory Function

A patient asks when most dreams occur.What is the nurse's best response? Most dreams occur during _____ sleep.

While planning care for infants,which principles should the nurse remember? (Select all that apply.)Infants have problems with thermoregulation because they:

When a patient has a fever,which of the following thermoregulatory mechanisms is activated?

A patient has increased intraocular pressure.Which diagnosis will the nurse observe on the chart?

A 15-year-old female scrapes her knee while playing soccer and complains of sharp and well-localized pain.Which of the following should the nurse document to most accurately characterize her pain?

A 70-year-old male presents to his primary care provider reporting loss of vision.He reports that he has hypertension and smokes cigarettes.Which of the following disorders is most likely causing his visual loss?

A 14-month-old child suffers from sudden apparent arousals in which she expresses intense fear or other emotion.Her mother reports that she seems to wake screaming,but that she is difficult to waken completely.The child most likely suffers from:

When planning care for a child in pain,which principle should the nurse remember? The pain threshold in children is _____ that of adults.

A 52-year-old male enters a sleep study to gather information about his sleep disturbances.He reports that his wife will not let him sleep in the bed with her until he stops snoring so loudly.He also reports feeling tired a lot through the day.When the nurse checks the chart,what is the most likely diagnosis?

When a neurologist explains how pricking a finger with a needle provides minimal pain while cutting the finger with a knife provides more severe pain,what theory is being described?

A 50-year-old diabetic patient experiences visual disturbances and decides to visit his primary care provider.After examination,the primary care provider tells the patient that the cells that allow him to see are degenerated.Which of the following structures is most likely damaged?

A young child presents to the ophthalmologist for visual difficulties secondary to eye deviation.One of the child's eyes deviates outward,thereby decreasing the visual field.Which of the following diagnoses is most likely?

The nurse would expect the patient with an alteration in proprioception to experience vertigo which is manifested by:

A 35-year-old female presents with watering and severely reddened eyes.She reports being very sensitive to light.Her primary care provider determined it was viral conjunctivitis caused by:

A patient is undergoing a sleep lab test.When the sleep lab worker notices EEG patterns with brain activity similar to the normal awake pattern,which phase of sleep is occurring?

A nurse is teaching about the structure that connects the middle ear with the pharynx.Which structure is the nurse describing?

The most common form of sensorineural hearing loss in the elderly is:

Which finding indicates the patient is having complications from heat stroke?

When the nurse is discussing the patient's cyclical temperature fluctuation occurring on a daily basis,what term should the nurse use?

Fever of unknown origin (FUO)is characterized by a fever of ____° F or greater