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| Acute pain last for how long? |
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| What can be continuous or intermittent and may not be indicative of tissue damage? |
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| What acts in a synergistic relationship? |
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| Fatigue sleep disturbance and depression |
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| According to the gate control theory of pain, what will close the gate? |
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| Where are endorphins found? |
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| What has the same effects as morphine, producing as analgic effect? |
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| Making a pain a vital sign would ensure what? |
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| that pain is monitored on a regular basis |
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| Appropriate pain management can bring about what? |
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| quicker recoveries, shorter hospital stays,fewer remissions, can improve the quality of life |
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| Information from the patient concerning site, severity and durationof the pain is what? |
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| Subjective data only the patient can give us. |
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| Hispanic men feel that to admit to being in pain is what? |
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| The nurse should record what information about pain? |
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| Subjective, intervention and administration |
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