Exam 14: Pain, Temperature, Sleep, and Sensory Function

Which group of people is most prone to color blindness?

The ophthalmologist is teaching about the structure of the eye that prevents light from scattering in the eye.What structure is the ophthalmologist describing?

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

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

Several years after an amputation the patient continues to sporadically feel pain in the absent hand.What type of pain should the nurse document in the chart?

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

When the nurse is taking a patient's temperature, which principle should the nurse remember? Regulation of body temperature primarily occurs in the:

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

A patient scrapes both knees while playing soccer and reports sharp and well-localized pain.Which of the following should the nurse document to most accurately characterize the pain?

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

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

Which condition would be treated with therapeutic hypothermia?

A patient asks the nurse where nociceptors can be found.How should the nurse respond? One location in which nociceptors can be found is the:

A 70-year-old patient presents to the primary care provider reporting loss of vision.A history that includes hypertension and cigarette smoking supports which visual diagnosis?

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?

Exogenous pyrogens are:

A nurse wants to teach about one of the primary organs responsible for heat production.Which organ should the nurse include?

A nurse is discussing an individual's conditioned or learned approach or avoidance behavior in response to pain.Which system is the nurse describing?

Heat loss from the body via convection occurs by:

A 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: