Stress 1
What are Style 3 stages of Stress?
Alarm, resistance, and relaxation
What is the “flight or fight response” perceived?
Threatening
What happens when stress is increased?
People Are Prone To Illness; 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?
Human System Responds To Change From Balanced State or Steady State
What are some disruptions of homeostasis?
Resistance and exhaustion
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
What are the types of homeostasis?
Physiologic and psychological homeostasis
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
What does everybody want to be in?
In a normal homeostasis
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.