NUR 215 EXAM 4 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What is Stress? - CORRECT ANSWER any disturbance in a person's normal balance state (The body always wants to be in homeostasis)
What is good or normal stress called? - CORRECT ANSWER Eustress
What is bad stress called? - CORRECT ANSWER Distress
What are situational stressors? - CORRECT ANSWER usually unpredictable and can occur at any point in their life such as stressful job changes, natural disasters, and motor vehicle accidents
What is developmental stress? - CORRECT ANSWER having a baby, getting married, children transitioning from elementary school to high school
What are time stressors? - CORRECT ANSWER Stressors that can lead to anxiety over the lack of opportunity to tend to all the things you have to deal with in life such as going to work.
Adaptive strategies - CORRECT ANSWER effective coping strategies, ways that an individual relieves stress in a healthy way such as exercise, seeking support or advice
Maladaptive - CORRECT ANSWER Ineffective coping strategies that do not promote adaptation to the stressor cause harmful effects such as overeating, drinking too much, working too much, oversleeping, and substance abuse
1st approach coping for stress - CORRECT ANSWER Altering the stressors
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2nd approach to coping with stress - CORRECT ANSWER adapt to the stressor
3rd approach to coping with stres - CORRECT ANSWER avoid the stressor (not always beneficial)
What happens in the body when it is faced with stress? - CORRECT ANSWER General Adaptation Syndrome, Local Adaptation Response
Explain the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) - CORRECT ANSWER Occurs in the entire body and has three parts. It is the body's initial reaction to stress.
What do vital signs look like during the alarm stage? - CORRECT ANSWER Elevated heart rate, elevated blood pressure, heightened mental alertness, increased blood flow into the muscles to protect the body
What is the first step of GAS? - CORRECT ANSWER Alarm Stage
Explain the alarm stage - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Known as "fight or flight" is when the body's functions are heightened to respond to the stressor.
- Occurs in the entire body
- The body releases cortisone, epinephrine, and norepinephrine.
What is the second part of the GAS? - CORRECT ANSWER Resistance Stage
Explain the Resistance Stage - CORRECT ANSWER The body is attempting to get back into homeostasis, the vital signs will go back down and stabilize, the body adapts to the stressor and the body recovers. (If your stress does go back to homeostasis your body goes into the recovery stage)
What is a physical response to the resistance stage? and Symptoms? - CORRECT ANSWER The body continues to release stress hormones but at lower levels than during
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