Teacher not really good at teaching....

[bri2012]

Ok so I had a lecture over comfort and pain but the teachers teaching method is not really good. She gave us this question:

The physician tells a pt to use ibuprofen to relieve the pain after treating a laceration on the patients forearm from a dog bite. The pt tells the nurse that he does not think ibuprofen will control his pain. The nurse's knowledge that ibuprofen interferes with the pain process by decreasing

A. perception

B. modulation

C. transduction

D. transmission

The majority of the class picked transmission. The answer is transduction. How she explain what transduction means is a stimulus converted to electrical energy. And transmission is the impulse.

Can anyone explain this to me in a different way???

[Boog'sCRRN246, RN]

On a cellular level, transduction is something extracellular (injury, etc.) causing an intracellular response (release of prostaglandins). Ibuprofen, specifically, keeps injured or damaged cells from making and releasing prostaglandin. When the cells don't release this chemical, it means that the brain won't get the pain message as quickly or clearly. So your pain goes away or becomes less severe for as long as the cells aren't releasing the chemical.

I don't know if that's any clearer than how your teacher explained it

[DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN]

IMO -- nice explanation.

[TheCareerStudent]

I am an electronics technician so I will explain in electronics geek lingo. A transmission is the movement of an electrical impulse aka electrical energy. A transduction is converting electrical energy into a different form. Remember that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

I am not sure if this helps you out, but this is how electronics geeks like myself views these terms. P.S. I am a nursing student now.