NURS1130 Exam 4 Guide With
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Stress - ANSWER actual or alleged hazard to the balance of homeostasis.
Physical, chemical, emotional factor that produces tension in the body or
mind
Stressor - ANSWER any physical, psychological or social stimuli that are
capable of producing stress and endangering homeostasis. Differ in scope,
strength and duration. Lessor stressors if it occurs over time can have
substantial influence
Appraisal - ANSWER how a person interprets the impact of the stressor.
Personal evaluation of the meaning of the event to what is happening and
consideration of resourced on hand to help manage stressor - personal
Eustress - ANSWER no stress or balanced stress
Recovery or exhaustion - ANSWER exhaustions occurs if recovery does not
occur in the resistance phase, continued alarm phase, decreased adaptation,
death
Allostatic load - ANSWER chronic arousal with presence of powerful
hormones causes excessive wear and tear on the body's organs
Primary appraisal - ANSWER evaluating the event in terms of personal
meaning
Secondary appraisal - ANSWER considering possible coping strategies or
available resources to deal with the event, if event exceeds ability to cope,
,stress occurs
Crisis theory - ANSWER feedback cues lead to reappraisal of original
perception, if coping behaviors ineffective stress occurs
Secondary traumatic stress - ANSWER a person witnesses another person's
suffering (compassion fatigue)
Coping - ANSWER cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage a stressor
Coping mechanisms - ANSWER psychological adaptive behaviors
Compensation - ANSWER making up for deficiency in one aspect of
self-image by emphasizing another aspect. "I may not be...but I do have..."
"I'm not good at x but I am good at y
Conversion - ANSWER unconsciously repressing an anxiety producing
emotional conflict and transforming into symptoms such as poor appetite or
difficulty sleeping - transferring anxiety
Denial - ANSWER avoiding emotional conflicts by refusing to consciously
acknowledging anything that caused intolerable emotional pain
Displacement - ANSWER transferring emotions, ideas, or wishes from a
stressful situation to a less anxiety producing substitute - laying it on
something else, work out, bake etc.
Identification - ANSWER patterning behavior after that of another person
and assuming that person's qualities, characteristics and cations - can
happen after death
Dissociation - ANSWER experiencing a subjective sense of numbing and a
reduces awareness of ones surroundings -NOT GOOD! Backing off of life, can
, cause auto accidents, substance abuse
Regression - ANSWER coping with a stressor through actions and behaviors
associated with an earlier developmental period - going back, happens in
children a lot, but can happen in adults too
Newman's systems model - ANSWER stressor in one place in a system affects
other parts of the stestem of a person, family community - physical can go
into emotional, emotional can go into physical
Callista Roy's adaptive model - ANSWER adaptation factors related to
stressful situations
Pender's health promotion model - ANSWER focuses on promoting health
and managing stress, maintaining health
Stimulus based model - ANSWER does not allow for individual differences in
perception and response to stressful events
Holmes and Rahe stress scale - - ANSWER a tool for pt. use
Burnout - ANSWER become robotic,
Psychological response to stress - ANSWER changes in eating, sleeping
activity. Depression, irritability, decreased self esteem, accidents, poor
judgment, substance abuse
Ridged family structure - ANSWER dictatorial, strict, difficulty accepting new
ideas, becomes more ridge as a coping mechanism
Open family structure - ANSWER few boundaries, inconsistent behaviors or
consequences, becomes more open as a coping mechanism
Closed family structure - ANSWER difficulty accepting assistance from
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Stress - ANSWER actual or alleged hazard to the balance of homeostasis.
Physical, chemical, emotional factor that produces tension in the body or
mind
Stressor - ANSWER any physical, psychological or social stimuli that are
capable of producing stress and endangering homeostasis. Differ in scope,
strength and duration. Lessor stressors if it occurs over time can have
substantial influence
Appraisal - ANSWER how a person interprets the impact of the stressor.
Personal evaluation of the meaning of the event to what is happening and
consideration of resourced on hand to help manage stressor - personal
Eustress - ANSWER no stress or balanced stress
Recovery or exhaustion - ANSWER exhaustions occurs if recovery does not
occur in the resistance phase, continued alarm phase, decreased adaptation,
death
Allostatic load - ANSWER chronic arousal with presence of powerful
hormones causes excessive wear and tear on the body's organs
Primary appraisal - ANSWER evaluating the event in terms of personal
meaning
Secondary appraisal - ANSWER considering possible coping strategies or
available resources to deal with the event, if event exceeds ability to cope,
,stress occurs
Crisis theory - ANSWER feedback cues lead to reappraisal of original
perception, if coping behaviors ineffective stress occurs
Secondary traumatic stress - ANSWER a person witnesses another person's
suffering (compassion fatigue)
Coping - ANSWER cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage a stressor
Coping mechanisms - ANSWER psychological adaptive behaviors
Compensation - ANSWER making up for deficiency in one aspect of
self-image by emphasizing another aspect. "I may not be...but I do have..."
"I'm not good at x but I am good at y
Conversion - ANSWER unconsciously repressing an anxiety producing
emotional conflict and transforming into symptoms such as poor appetite or
difficulty sleeping - transferring anxiety
Denial - ANSWER avoiding emotional conflicts by refusing to consciously
acknowledging anything that caused intolerable emotional pain
Displacement - ANSWER transferring emotions, ideas, or wishes from a
stressful situation to a less anxiety producing substitute - laying it on
something else, work out, bake etc.
Identification - ANSWER patterning behavior after that of another person
and assuming that person's qualities, characteristics and cations - can
happen after death
Dissociation - ANSWER experiencing a subjective sense of numbing and a
reduces awareness of ones surroundings -NOT GOOD! Backing off of life, can
, cause auto accidents, substance abuse
Regression - ANSWER coping with a stressor through actions and behaviors
associated with an earlier developmental period - going back, happens in
children a lot, but can happen in adults too
Newman's systems model - ANSWER stressor in one place in a system affects
other parts of the stestem of a person, family community - physical can go
into emotional, emotional can go into physical
Callista Roy's adaptive model - ANSWER adaptation factors related to
stressful situations
Pender's health promotion model - ANSWER focuses on promoting health
and managing stress, maintaining health
Stimulus based model - ANSWER does not allow for individual differences in
perception and response to stressful events
Holmes and Rahe stress scale - - ANSWER a tool for pt. use
Burnout - ANSWER become robotic,
Psychological response to stress - ANSWER changes in eating, sleeping
activity. Depression, irritability, decreased self esteem, accidents, poor
judgment, substance abuse
Ridged family structure - ANSWER dictatorial, strict, difficulty accepting new
ideas, becomes more ridge as a coping mechanism
Open family structure - ANSWER few boundaries, inconsistent behaviors or
consequences, becomes more open as a coping mechanism
Closed family structure - ANSWER difficulty accepting assistance from
