Homeostasis/General
A relatively stable state of physiologic equilibrium; meaning "Staying the same"
What is Homeostasis?
The response of an organism to change.
What is Adaptation?
One or more adaptive or resistive mechanisms are no longer able to protect the person experiencing a stressor.
What is Stage of Exhaustion?
The unconscious tactics to defend the psyche.
What is Coping Mechanism?
Promotes the ability to learn an adaptive response by exposing a person to someone who demonstrates a positive attitude or behavior.
What is Modeling?
Identify; assess response to stress; eliminate/reduce; prevent additional stressors; promote physiologic adaptive responses; support psychological coping strategies; maintain in social network support; implement stress reduction and stress management techniques.
What are Nursing Implications for assessing stress?
Serotonin, Epi, Norepi, Acetylcholine, dopamine, GABA, Substance P, Endorphins, Enkephalins
What are examples of Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides?
The intensity of the stressor; the number of stressors; the duration of stressor; physical health status; life experiences; coping strategies; social support; personal beliefs; attitudes; values
What are factors the vary for stress?
Manifesting emotional stress through a physical disorder. (Example: Developing diarrhea that excuses one from dealing with work stress.)
What is Somatization?
Alternative thinking, behaviors, and lifestyles.
What are Adaptive Activities?
Stress reduction activities selected consciously.
What is Coping strategies?
Chemical messengers made in the neuron that allow communication across the synaptic cleft between neurons.
What is a Neurotransmitter?
Physiologic changes designed to restore homeostasis. Neuroendocrine hormones compensate for physiologic changes in alarm stage.
What is Stage of Resistance?
Purposely avoiding thinking about a stressor.
What is Suppression?
Alters a negative physiologic response through the power of suggestion.
What is Placebo Effect?
Composed of the brain and the spinal cord, is subdivided into the cortex (the higher functioning portion of the brain) and subcortex (contains the brainstem which includes the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata), and the Reticular Activating System (RAS).
What is the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
Releases hormones, or factors, that stimulate and inhibit secretions from the anterior and posterior lobes of the pituitary gland.
What is the Hypothalamus?
Collective physiologic processes that occur in response to stressor.
What is General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)?
Excelling at something to make up for a weakness of another kind.
What is Compensation?
Alters autonomic nervous system functions by responding to electronically displayed physiologic data.
What is Biofeedback?
This system includes the Sympathetic Nervous System and the Parasympathetic Nervous System.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System (Peripheral Nervous System)
Another type of communication between neurons and include substance P, endorphins, enkephalins, and other neurohormones.
What is a Neuropeptide?
The immediate physiologic process that occur in response to a stressor (fight or flight)
What is Alarm stage?
Rejecting information.
What is denial?
Reduces physical and emotional tension through postural changes, muscular stretching, and focused concentration.
What is Yoga?