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4444 Understanding Health and Illness UNIT TWO 42 VOCABULARY Match the serm with ahe appropriate defininion or statement 1. Whatever the experiencing person says it is 2. Endogenous chemicals that act like opioids 3. Larger done of analgesic required to relieve same pain 4. Psychological dependence 5. Self-administered analgesics 6. Dose of analgesic limited by side effects 1 Addiction Tolerance 2. Ceiling effect 3. 4 Pain Prostaglandins Adjuvant 5. 6 7 Opioid .Patient-controlled analgesia 7. Medication that relieves pain 9. Endorphins Analgesic 8. Drug used to potentiate analgesics 9. Neurotransminers released during pain 10. A morphinelike drug 10. CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE CARE CRITICAL THINKING 1. Mrs. Walker, a new patient on your unit, has recently been admitted for rehabilitation following a hip fracture. She has a son who is very engaged in her care. He visits his mother several times a week and will often bring a small bottle of oil with him that he will dab on his finger and then use to make the sign of the cross on her fore- Read the following case study and answer the questions Ms. Murphy is a 32-year-old woman admited to your i following an emergency appendectomy at 0800. When you enter her room at 1400, she is sitting up in bed smiling n visiting with her family. She tells you she is hurting and asks for her pain medication. You check her medication ecoed and find onders for morphine 5 to 10 mg intravenous push every 4 hours as needed for pain. head. What is the best response? 1. Ask the son about the oil and other family beliefs that are important in healing. 2. Ask the son to refrain from using any substances on the patient's skin without approval from the doctor 3. Document what you saw and continue passing 1. List at least seven areas you willl assess related to her pain. medications. 4. Instruct the nursing assistants to go to the room and watch what else he does. 2. How might you further engage Mrs. Walker's son in her care? 2. Based on your assessment, you discuss administering 10 mg of morphine with the registered nurse, who wil give the intravenous medication. What class of drags does morphine belong to? What is its mechanism of action? Why is it important for you to be aware of these things when the registered nurse is administering the drug? 3. When you go to check on Mrs. Walker a few hours later you notice that she is frowning, her teeth are clenched tight, and she is wringing her hands. You ask her if she is having any pain, and she responds, "No." How do you respond? 1. Say, "Okay" and document that the patient currently has no reported pain. 2. Advise the patient that it is time for her next sched uled pain medication and go retrieve it. 3. Tell the patient that you noticed her frowning and clenching her teeth, and ask if her hip is sore or if she is uncomfortable. 4. Call the patient's son and ask him to talk to her about being honest about her pain.

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• Addiction - psychological dependence
• Tolerance - Whatever the experiencing person say it is.
• Ceiling effect- Larger dose of analgesic is required to relieve same pain.
• Pain- Self administered analgesic.