Stress 1
What are Style 3 stages of Stress?
Alarm, resistance, and exaustion
"emergency" when we are face with a threat the body reacts immediately - there is a rush of adrenaline, heightened muscle tension, faster heart rate an raised blood pressure. What is this called?
What is "fight or fly response?"
What happens when stress is increased?
People Are Prone To Illness and have decreased ability to cope
Family assessment data examples?
Self care
Selye’s general adaptation syndrome (GAS) is a theory of adaptation to biological stress. Selye compares the GAS with the life process: childhood, adulthood and later years. What would occur?
Stressful events occur and resistance or adaptation occur
What is stress?
is a state of worry or mental tension
The symptoms of stress can manifest in different ways, so recognizing them is an important step. what are the five categories in which the symptom of stress shows.
emotional, physical , behavioral, mental and health problems.
Signs and symptoms are a result of?
Sympathetic & Neuroendocrine Systems Of Body
Nursing interventions/education for someone with stress?
Therapy, communication, ask for help, educate about disease (heart disease)
What is the alarm phase known as?
Flight or fight response
What is a change in environment cause?
Seen As Challenge, Threat or Danger to a Person’s Steady State-Homeostasis
anxiety, nervousness, worry depression anger, irritability guilt, moodiness, a loss of enjoyment in life, loneliness, feeling fearful,loss of humour, lack of confidence, isolation, disatisfaction with your job. What category are this symptoms under?
What is the Emotional symptoms
What is an example of an external stressor?
COVID-19
Types of stress:
positive, tolerable, toxic, negative and positive
If you aren’t coping, what will happen?
Mental illness… you go crazy
What are the models of stress?
Stimulus, response and transactional based models
feeling restless, uptight, jumpy high muscle tension in the neck and back, headaches, poor sleep, fatigue, lack of energy pain, dry moth weakness, dizziness, trembling grinding of the teeth, butterflies in the stomach, loss or increase in appetite cramps frequent need to urinate, pressure, palpitations. This are symptoms under which of the categories of stress?
What is physical symptoms?
What is an example of an internal stressor?
In life struggles
The client most likely to be experiencing a negative situational stress response is:
an 80 year old victimized by a telephone scam (bc it’s a situational response IS IT IN THE MOMENT?)
When physiological mechanisms within the body respond to internal changes in hopes to maintain an essential balance, the following process has occurred?
Homeostasis
What happens if your body is always in flight or fight response?
Not having a normal level of homeostasis… you will develop conditions
What effect does stress have if not managed?
Can Threaten Physiologic Homeostasis & Result In Illness
What are maladaptive responses?
Smoking, drinking, diet, family provider, family problems, being overworked… not doing self care
What does GAS stand for?
General adaptation syndrome
What happens in the body when you get stressed?
HR, RR, blood glucose, BP, waste removal, temperature, electrolytic balance, blood body cells, and more.