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HOSA CLINICAL NURSING COMPETITION 2025|
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YOUR GRADES.
1. What does the "S" stand for in SOAP - correct answer -
Subjective
2. What does the "O" stand for in SOAP - correct answer -
Objective
3. What does the "A" stand for in SOAP - correct answer -
Assessment
4. What does the "P" stand for in SOAP - correct answer - Plan
5. What is the kind of pain that includes discomfort that has a
short duration (from a few seconds to less than 6 months) -
correct answer - Acute pain
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6. What is a privately experiences, unpleasant sensation usually
associated with disease or injury - correct answer - Pain
7. What is the kind of pain that includes the noxious stimuli that
are transmitted from the point of cellular injury over peripheral
sensory nerve to pathways between the spinal cord and
thalamus and eventually from the thalamus to the cerebral
cortex of the brain and is subdivided into somatic and visceral
pain - correct answer - Nociceptive pain
8. What is the type of pain that is caused by mechanical,
chemical, thermal, or electrical injuries or disorders affecting
bones, joints, muscles, skin, or other structures composed of
connective tissue - correct answer - Somatic pain
9. What is another name for superficial somatic pain - correct
answer - Cutaneous pain
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10. What type of pain is perceived as sharp or burning
discomfort; such as that from an insect bite or paper cut -
correct answer - Superficial somatic pain
11. What is pain such as that caused by trauma procedures;
localized sensations that are sharp, throbbing, and intense or
like a fracture that is dull, aching, diffuse discomfort and is
more common with long term disorders such as arthritis -
correct answer - Deeper somatic pain
12. What is pain that arises from internal organs such as the
heart, kidneys, and intestines that are diseased or injured -
correct answer - Visceral pain
13. What kind of pain has some of the following causes:
ischemia (reduced arterial blood flow to an organ),
compression of an organ, and intestinal distention with gas or
contraction as occurs with with gallbladder or kidney stones -
correct answer - Visceral pain
14. What kind of pain usually is diffuse, poorly localized, and
accompanied by an autonomic nervous system with symptoms
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such as nausea, vomiting, pallor, hypotension, and sweating -
correct answer - Visceral pain
15. What is a term used to describe discomfort that is perceived
in a general area of the body but not in the exact site where the
organ is and anatomically located - correct answer - Referred
pain
16. What kind of pain is processed abnormally by the nervous
system and results from damage to either the pain pathways in
peripheral nerves or pain-processing centers in the brain (ex:
phantom limb pain) - correct answer - Neuropathic pain
17. What is a term that describes discomfort that lasts longer
than 6 months and is almost totally opposite from those of
acute pain - correct answer - Chronic pain
18. What are periods of acute pain for chronic pain sufferers
called - correct answer - Breakthrough pain
HOSA CLINICAL NURSING COMPETITION 2025|
BRAND NEW ACTUAL EXAM WITH 100%
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
SOLUTIONS| GUARANTEED VALUE PACK| ACE
YOUR GRADES.
1. What does the "S" stand for in SOAP - correct answer -
Subjective
2. What does the "O" stand for in SOAP - correct answer -
Objective
3. What does the "A" stand for in SOAP - correct answer -
Assessment
4. What does the "P" stand for in SOAP - correct answer - Plan
5. What is the kind of pain that includes discomfort that has a
short duration (from a few seconds to less than 6 months) -
correct answer - Acute pain
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6. What is a privately experiences, unpleasant sensation usually
associated with disease or injury - correct answer - Pain
7. What is the kind of pain that includes the noxious stimuli that
are transmitted from the point of cellular injury over peripheral
sensory nerve to pathways between the spinal cord and
thalamus and eventually from the thalamus to the cerebral
cortex of the brain and is subdivided into somatic and visceral
pain - correct answer - Nociceptive pain
8. What is the type of pain that is caused by mechanical,
chemical, thermal, or electrical injuries or disorders affecting
bones, joints, muscles, skin, or other structures composed of
connective tissue - correct answer - Somatic pain
9. What is another name for superficial somatic pain - correct
answer - Cutaneous pain
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10. What type of pain is perceived as sharp or burning
discomfort; such as that from an insect bite or paper cut -
correct answer - Superficial somatic pain
11. What is pain such as that caused by trauma procedures;
localized sensations that are sharp, throbbing, and intense or
like a fracture that is dull, aching, diffuse discomfort and is
more common with long term disorders such as arthritis -
correct answer - Deeper somatic pain
12. What is pain that arises from internal organs such as the
heart, kidneys, and intestines that are diseased or injured -
correct answer - Visceral pain
13. What kind of pain has some of the following causes:
ischemia (reduced arterial blood flow to an organ),
compression of an organ, and intestinal distention with gas or
contraction as occurs with with gallbladder or kidney stones -
correct answer - Visceral pain
14. What kind of pain usually is diffuse, poorly localized, and
accompanied by an autonomic nervous system with symptoms
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such as nausea, vomiting, pallor, hypotension, and sweating -
correct answer - Visceral pain
15. What is a term used to describe discomfort that is perceived
in a general area of the body but not in the exact site where the
organ is and anatomically located - correct answer - Referred
pain
16. What kind of pain is processed abnormally by the nervous
system and results from damage to either the pain pathways in
peripheral nerves or pain-processing centers in the brain (ex:
phantom limb pain) - correct answer - Neuropathic pain
17. What is a term that describes discomfort that lasts longer
than 6 months and is almost totally opposite from those of
acute pain - correct answer - Chronic pain
18. What are periods of acute pain for chronic pain sufferers
called - correct answer - Breakthrough pain
