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Question 1: ATTITUDES
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Patients respects your advice and council from your belief in their ability to move past the stressful event or illness.
Question 2: Nursing Interventions are designed within the framework of?
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Primary,Secondary and Tertiary Prevention
Question 3: Subjective Findings
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Statements made by the patient,pt. view or stress,coping resourses
Question 4: A crisis creates a turning point in a persons life because
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it changes the direction of a persons life in some way.
Question 5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD)
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People who have experienced accidents,violents events such as rape,domestic abuse,war,and natural disasters.(People with PTSD sometimes have FLASHBACKS-a recollection so strong that the person thinks he is experiencing the trama again.) Question 6: When Assessing a child for the effects of stress,you observe that:
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Stressors and coping methods are different for children than older people
Question 7: CRISIS INTERVENTION
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Aims to return the person to a precrisis level of functioning and to promote growth.
Question 8: ACUTE CARE-Crisis Intervention
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When stress overwhelms a persons usual coping mechanism and demands mobilization of all available resources,the stress becomes a crisis.
Question 9: NURSING KNOWLEDGE-PRIMARY,SECONDARY,and TERTIARY PREVENTION.
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1.Primary-promotes pt. wellness by stress prevention and reduction of risk.2.Secondary-occurs after symptoms appear3.Tertiary-begins when the pt. system becomes more stable.
Question 10: CRISIS
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Occurs when a persons emotional equalibrium is upset and custom problem-solving techniques cant be used to meet the daily problems of living.Question 11: Another nurse is talking to you about stress she feels on the job.You reconize that:
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Nurses frequently experience stress with the rapid changes in health care technology and organizational restructuring.
Question 12: PATIENT EXPECTATION
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What does pt. expect from you.(sometimes when nothing will change or improve the situation than Denial is ok.
Question 13: Ineffective Coping
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Inability to cope and Inability to ask for help.Ex.Denial,Self mutilation
Question 14: Evaluation-Patient Care
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Review the behaviorally stated,measurable goals,and evaluate whether or not the patient has met the criteria as stated in the outcome.GOAL MET,NOT MET,PARTIALLY MET.
Question 15: HYPOTHALAMUS
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another part of the brain secretes ENDORPHINS.
Question 16: TYPES OF STRESS
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Distress(damaging stress) and eustress(stress that protects health)
Question 17: The GAS
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Is an immediate physiological response of the body to stress.
Question 18: F THE STRESSORS BECOME A THREAT TO LIFE OR LASTS A LONG TIME
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THE PERSON PROGRESSES TO THE 2nd STAGE.
Question 19: Sociocultural Factors-
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Any age group,but especially stressful for young people.(Ex.prolonged poverty,physical handicap,and chronic illness.)
Question 20: PLANNING- Goals and Outcomes
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Desirable Goals for the person experiencing stress are 1.Coping,2.Family Coping,3.Caregiver emotional help 4.Psychosocial Adjustment;life change
Question 21: Fight or Flight Response
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Response to stress-Prepares a person for action by increasing heart rate;diverting blood from the intestines to the brain and straited muscles; and increasing BP,Heart rate,Respiratory rate,and blood glucose levels.(getting you ready to take that stress a
Question 22: NURSING PROCESS-ASSESSMENT
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of a patients stress level and coping resources require that you first establish a trusting nurse-patient relationship.
Question 23: TWO TYPES OF CRISIS
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1.Developmental Crisis(role changes) 2.Situational Crisis-when life events upsets the persons equilibrium
Question 24: potenial stressors and coping mechanisms
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vary across the life span)
Question 25: Exercise improves circulation and triggers the release of?
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endorphins :)
Question 26: NURSING DIAGNOSIS
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Focus on Coping With Stress