Linton: Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, 6th Edition
Chapter 15: Pain Management
Answer Key – Open-Book Quiz
1. Recognizing the right of patients to appropriate assessment and management of pain,
3. The gate-control theory assumes that the pain experience reflects both physical and
psychological factors. Painful impulses are transmitted to the spinal cord through
4. Pain threshold is the point at which a stimulus causes the sensation of pain. Pain
tolerance refers to the intensity of pain that a person will endure.
6. Neuropathic pain is chronic pain that follows an abnormal pathway for pain.
7. Accept the patient’s report; determine the status of the pain; describe the pain;
8. TENS is an expensive therapy that involves cutaneous stimulation. It requires a
physician’s order and involves external electrical stimulation of the skin and
9. Nonopioid analgesics act mostly on the peripheral nervous system and are used for
10. A product of meperidine metabolism is normeperidine, which is a central nervous