Stress 1
periods in life involving lots of change to your lifestyle.
They might also be a result of important events that make you stop and
evaluate your life
Life’s transition
3. Which of the following is not considered a stressor?
A.break up
B. Death of a loved one
C. Watching your favorite TV show
D. Conflict with your best friend
C.Watching your favorite TV show
A POSITIVE STRESS OR GOOD STRESS
EUSTRESS
a stimulus that causes stress
STRESSOR
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?
Stress is the body’s response to
anything that makes us feel threatened or
pressured. It is caused by any kind of
demand, to which we must adapt, adjust, or
respond. It is the body’s automatic way of
reacting to changes, challenges, and
demands placed on us.
What are some disruptions of homeostasis?
Resistance and exhaustion
GIVE ONE EXAMPLE OF A EFFECT OF POSITIVE STRESS
MOTIVATION,INCREASE PERFORMANCE ETC.
Nursing interventions/education for someone with stress?
Therapy, communication, ask for help, educate about disease (heart disease)
REFERS TO MENTAL AND BEHAVUIORAL EFFORTS THAT WE USE TO DEAL WITH PROBLEMS RELATED TO STRESS.
COPING
an agent (such as an environmental change) that directly
influences the activity of a living organism or one of its parts (as by
exciting a sensory organ or evoking muscular contraction or glandular
secretion)
Stimulus
True/False. Positive emotions usually cause stress.
FALSE
What is an example of an external stressor?
COVID-19
Types of stress:
GOOD AND BAD/POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE
If you aren’t coping, what will happen?
Mental illness… you go crazy
. True/False. Stress response can actually cause harm if it leads to a state
of chronic stress.
TRUE
GIVE ATLEAST 3 COMMON CAUSES OF STRESS TO STUDENTS.
PEERS,EXAMINATION,BULLYING,MODULES,NOISE,DEADLINES,OVERCROWDING ETC.
NEGATIVE STRESS OR BAD STRESS.
DISTRESS
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
apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an
impending or anticipated ill
ANXIETY
What effect does stress have if not managed?
Can Threaten Physiologic Homeostasis & Result In Illness
ENUMERATE AT EAST 3 WAYS ON HOW TO REDUCE STRESS.
KNITTING,DANCE LIKE NO ONE IS WATCHING ETC.
- one of bodily or mental tension resulting from factors that tend to
alter an existent equilibrium
STRESS
. The collection of physiological changes that occur when you face a
perceived threat—when you face situations where you feel the demands
outweigh your resources to successfully cope.
STRESSOR