Stress/Adaptation
Type of stress that threatens health
What is Distress
Individuals within this faith refuse blood transfusions even if it is autologous and do not celebrate birthdays or holidays
What is Jehovah's Witnesses
May be defined as the undesired change or removal of a valued object, person, or situation
What is Loss
The inability to fall asleep, remain asleep, or go back to sleep
What is Insomnia
Hormone the body secretes during the shock phase (for example, preparing for an emergency situation) of GAS
What is Epinephrine?
Women in this faith may be modest and usually prefer to be treated by female medical staff
What is Hinduism?
Identify 3 therapeutic communication techniques nurses can use when dealing with patients and family in death and dying process
What is: perfect your listening skills, increase your self awareness, respond to nonverbal cues with touch and eye contact, encourage and accept expression of feelings, reassure it is not wrong to feel anger, relief or other acceptable feelings, continue to communicate even in the case of coma
Identify 3 benefits of sleep
What is: improve learning and adaptation; strengthens immune system; restores energy
Step in the body's inflammatory process that occurs 1st
What is a Vascular response?
Members of this culture may want to engage a traditional healer to restore a state of harmony with nature
What is Native American
Type of dysfunctional/complicated grief that occurs when the person is grieving but expressing the grief through other types of behavior
What is Masked grief?
Chronic disorder caused by the brain's inability to regulate sleep-wake cycles normally
What is Narcolepsy
Type of stressor that affects body structure or function (i.e. chemical, physical, biological, genetic, etc.)
What is Physiological
Forbidden to eat pork and must always wash their hands before eating
What is Muslim
Identify 1 important action the nurse should take in providing end of life care that addresses spiritual needs
What is: be an empathetic listener, allow special spiritual rituals, provide time for meditation
Periodic interruption in breathing during sleep - an absence of air flow through the nose or mouth during sleep
What is Sleep Apnea
Reflex Pain response in local adaptation syndrome
What is a Physical response?
Provide five examples of barriers to providing spiritual care
What are: lack of awareness of spirituality in general or lack of own belief system, trying to be all things to all people, differences in spirituality between nurse and client, fear of insufficient knowledge base, fear of where the discussions may lead, etc.
What is Environmental Loss
Abnormalities in sleep-wake cycles caused by rapid time-zone changes (jet lag, shift work, or change in total sleep time from day to day)
What is Circadian Disorders