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NURS-175 Exam 3 Mastery: Pain, Fluids, Electrolytes, & Lifespan Development – Complete Rationales & Tools Included!

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Master the foundations! This guide breaks down pain assessment tools (FACES, FLACC, COMFORT), fluid/electrolyte imbalances, Erikson’s stages, and nursing care across the lifespan. Includes IV therapy complications, diuretic classifications, and anti-inflammatory meds. Straightforward explanations, visual aids, and practice questions with rationales make complex topics easy. Brand new version – guaranteed to boost your score!

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Definition of pain - ANSWERS--whatever the experiencing person
says it is, existing whenever the experiencing person says it does


Classifications of Pain - ANSWERS--- Duration
- Localization/location
- Etiology


Duration - ANSWERS--- Acute
- Chronic


Acute Pain - ANSWERS--- Rapid onset, varies in intensity and duration
- Protective in nature


Chronic Pain - ANSWERS--- May be limited, intermittent, or
persistent
- Lasts beyond the normal healing period
- Periods of remission or exacerbation are common

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Localization/location - ANSWERS--- Cutaneous
- Somatic
- Visceral
- Referred


Cutaneous pain - ANSWERS--Superficial pain usually involving skin or
subcutaneous tissue
- papercut


Somatic pain - ANSWERS--- diffused/scattered
- originated in tendons, ligaments, bones, blood vessels, or nerves
- Ex: sprained ankle


Visceral pain - ANSWERS--- poor located
- originated in body organs (thorax, cranium, abdomen)


Referred pain - ANSWERS--Pain in an area removed from that in
which stimulation has its origin
- Ex: MI


Etiology - ANSWERS--- Nociceptors
- Neuropathic
- Intractable
- Phantom

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- Psychogenic


Nociceptive pain - ANSWERS--- nociceptors initiate pain & are
activated by damage/threat to peripheral tissue
- most common type


Neuropathic pain - ANSWERS--Pain that results as a direct
consequence of a lesion or disease affecting abnormal functioning of
the peripheral nervous system (PNS) or central nervous system (CNS)
- Ex: pins & needles


Intractable pain - ANSWERS--Severe pain that is extremely resistant
to relief measures
- Ex: cancers


Phantom pain - ANSWERS--Sensation of pain without demonstrable
physiologic or pathologic substance; commonly observed after the
amputation of a limb


Psychogenic pain - ANSWERS--Pain for which no physical cause can
be identified


Pain Assessment Tools - ANSWERS--- Numerical pain scale
- Wong-Baker FACES
- Beyer Oucher pain scale
- CRIES pain scale

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- FLACC scale
- COMFORT scale


Numerical Pain Scale - ANSWERS--Rating pain on a 1-10 scale


Wong-Baker FACES - ANSWERS--Asks children to compare their pain
to a series of faces ranging from a broad smile to a tearful grimace


Beyer Oucher Pain Scale - ANSWERS--- Use in young patients,
combines a 0-100 scale with six photographic images of children in
pain
- Helpful in older children and various ethnic groups


CRIES Pain Scale - ANSWERS--A tool intended for use with neonates
and infants from 0-6 months


FLACC Scale - ANSWERS--- Faces, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability
- Designed for infants and children from age 2 months- 7 years who
are unable to validate the presence or severity of pain, rates each of
the five categories on a 0-2 scale
- children may be asked to record their pain experiences in a daily
diary


COMFORT Scale - ANSWERS--- used to assess pain and distress in
critically ill pediatric patients

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