NR 283 PATHO WEEK 4 REVIEW | 2025-2026 LATEST UPDATED|ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100% RATED CORRECT | 100%
VERFIED | ALREADY GRADED A+
1. A nurse is caring for a client in the emergency department. What change to the pupils
occurs as a result of unrelieved intracranial pressure?: Fixed and dilated pupil
2. What is a sudden onset of an explosive, disorderly discharge of cerebral neurons referred to
as?: Seizure
3. A nurse is caring for a client whose medical history indicates Alzheimer's. What assessment
finding supports a diagnosis of dementia?: Loss of recent and remote memory
4. A client experiencing a heart attack complains of pain in the left arm. What type of pain
would this be considered?: Referred pain
5. A nurse is caring for a client with chronic pain. How should the nurse explain physiological
dependence?: Adaptation of the body to a drug, resulting in withdrawal signs after the drug is
discontinued
6. Referred pain: pain felt in a part of the body other than its actual source 7. Phantom pain: is
perceived by the person as occurring in the lost limb and typically does not respond to usual pain
therapies
8. Central pain: Caused by dysfunction or damage to the brain or spinal cord
9. Chronic pain: Type
- Slow; diffuse, prolonged
1/7
, - Existing, chemical
Pathway
- Slow unmyelinated C fibers
- Paleospinothalamic tract
Response
- Long term, disabling
- Fatigue, depression, irritability
Emotion
- Loss of hope, depression, anger
Treatment
- Difficult to treat effectively
10. Ischemic pain: Results from a profound, sudden loss of blood flow to an organ or tissue in a
specific area of the body
11. Neuropathic pain: Caused by trauma or disease involving the peripheral nerves
12. Acute pain: Type:
- Fast; localized
- Stimuli Injury; mechanical, thermal Pathway:
- Fast A delta myelinated fibers
- Neospinothalamic tract
Response:
2/7
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100% RATED CORRECT | 100%
VERFIED | ALREADY GRADED A+
1. A nurse is caring for a client in the emergency department. What change to the pupils
occurs as a result of unrelieved intracranial pressure?: Fixed and dilated pupil
2. What is a sudden onset of an explosive, disorderly discharge of cerebral neurons referred to
as?: Seizure
3. A nurse is caring for a client whose medical history indicates Alzheimer's. What assessment
finding supports a diagnosis of dementia?: Loss of recent and remote memory
4. A client experiencing a heart attack complains of pain in the left arm. What type of pain
would this be considered?: Referred pain
5. A nurse is caring for a client with chronic pain. How should the nurse explain physiological
dependence?: Adaptation of the body to a drug, resulting in withdrawal signs after the drug is
discontinued
6. Referred pain: pain felt in a part of the body other than its actual source 7. Phantom pain: is
perceived by the person as occurring in the lost limb and typically does not respond to usual pain
therapies
8. Central pain: Caused by dysfunction or damage to the brain or spinal cord
9. Chronic pain: Type
- Slow; diffuse, prolonged
1/7
, - Existing, chemical
Pathway
- Slow unmyelinated C fibers
- Paleospinothalamic tract
Response
- Long term, disabling
- Fatigue, depression, irritability
Emotion
- Loss of hope, depression, anger
Treatment
- Difficult to treat effectively
10. Ischemic pain: Results from a profound, sudden loss of blood flow to an organ or tissue in a
specific area of the body
11. Neuropathic pain: Caused by trauma or disease involving the peripheral nerves
12. Acute pain: Type:
- Fast; localized
- Stimuli Injury; mechanical, thermal Pathway:
- Fast A delta myelinated fibers
- Neospinothalamic tract
Response:
2/7
