NURS 550 Midterm Questions and Answers OLDCARTS Answer > Onset Location Duration Characteristics Aggravating and Alleviating Factors Radiation Treatment Severity OPQRST Answer > Onset Provoking/Palliating Factors Quality Radiation or Region Severity Timing or Temporal Characteristics Pack Years Calculation Answer > # of packs per day x # of years smoked Sexual History: The 5 P's Answer > Partners Practices Protection from STIs Past hx of STIs Pregnancy plans Nociceptive Pain Answer > - Damage to tissue or viscera in which sensory ner ves are intact - Dull, pressing, pulling, throbbing, boring, spasmodic, colicky Neuropathic Pain Answer > - Direct trauma to PNS or CNS - Shock -like, stabbing, burning, pins -and-needles Example of nociceptive pain Answer > Direct trauma (cut, broken bone) Example of neuropathic pain Answer > Diabetic Neuropathy Herpes Zoster rash Idiopathic Pain Answer > No identifiable cause Psychogenic Pain Answer > Related to factors that influence the patient's report of pain Chronic Pain Answer > Not due to cancer or illness and lasts >3 -6 mo OR lasts >1 mo following resolution of illness Underweight BMI Answer > <18.5 Normal BMI Answer > 18.5 -24.9 Overweight BMI Answer > 25-29.9 Obesity I BMI
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