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NURS1130 Exam 4 Study Guide Solutions
Stress - Ans:✔✔-actual or alleged hazard to the balance of homeostasis. Physical, chemical, emotional
factor that produces tension in the body or mind
Stressor - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-no stress or balanced stress
Recovery or exhaustion - Ans:✔✔-exhaustions occurs if recovery does not occur in the resistance phase,
continued alarm phase, decreased adaptation, death
Allostatic load - Ans:✔✔-chronic arousal with presence of powerful hormones causes excessive wear and
tear on the body's organs
Primary appraisal - Ans:✔✔-evaluating the event in terms of personal meaning
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Secondary appraisal - Ans:✔✔-considering possible coping strategies or available resources to deal with
the event, if event exceeds ability to cope, stress occurs
Crisis theory - Ans:✔✔-feedback cues lead to reappraisal of original perception, if coping behaviors
ineffective stress occurs
Secondary traumatic stress - Ans:✔✔-a person witnesses another person's suffering (compassion
fatigue)
Coping - Ans:✔✔-cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage a stressor
Coping mechanisms - Ans:✔✔-psychological adaptive behaviors
Compensation - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-unconsciously repressing an anxiety producing emotional conflict and
transforming into symptoms such as poor appetite or difficulty sleeping - transferring anxiety
Denial - Ans:✔✔-avoiding emotional conflicts by refusing to consciously acknowledging anything that
caused intolerable emotional pain
Displacement - Ans:✔✔-transferring emotions, ideas, or wishes from a stressful situation to a less
anxiety producing substitute - laying it on something else, work out, bake etc.
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Identification - Ans:✔✔-patterning behavior after that of another person and assuming that person's
qualities, characteristics and cations - can happen after death
Dissociation - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-adaptation factors related to stressful situations
Pender's health promotion model - Ans:✔✔-focuses on promoting health and managing stress,
maintaining health
Stimulus based model - Ans:✔✔-does not allow for individual differences in perception and response to
stressful events
Holmes and Rahe stress scale - - Ans:✔✔-a tool for pt. use
Burnout - Ans:✔✔-become robotic,
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NURS1130 Exam 4 Study Guide Solutions
Stress - Ans:✔✔-actual or alleged hazard to the balance of homeostasis. Physical, chemical, emotional
factor that produces tension in the body or mind
Stressor - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-no stress or balanced stress
Recovery or exhaustion - Ans:✔✔-exhaustions occurs if recovery does not occur in the resistance phase,
continued alarm phase, decreased adaptation, death
Allostatic load - Ans:✔✔-chronic arousal with presence of powerful hormones causes excessive wear and
tear on the body's organs
Primary appraisal - Ans:✔✔-evaluating the event in terms of personal meaning
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Secondary appraisal - Ans:✔✔-considering possible coping strategies or available resources to deal with
the event, if event exceeds ability to cope, stress occurs
Crisis theory - Ans:✔✔-feedback cues lead to reappraisal of original perception, if coping behaviors
ineffective stress occurs
Secondary traumatic stress - Ans:✔✔-a person witnesses another person's suffering (compassion
fatigue)
Coping - Ans:✔✔-cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage a stressor
Coping mechanisms - Ans:✔✔-psychological adaptive behaviors
Compensation - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-unconsciously repressing an anxiety producing emotional conflict and
transforming into symptoms such as poor appetite or difficulty sleeping - transferring anxiety
Denial - Ans:✔✔-avoiding emotional conflicts by refusing to consciously acknowledging anything that
caused intolerable emotional pain
Displacement - Ans:✔✔-transferring emotions, ideas, or wishes from a stressful situation to a less
anxiety producing substitute - laying it on something else, work out, bake etc.
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Identification - Ans:✔✔-patterning behavior after that of another person and assuming that person's
qualities, characteristics and cations - can happen after death
Dissociation - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-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 - Ans:✔✔-adaptation factors related to stressful situations
Pender's health promotion model - Ans:✔✔-focuses on promoting health and managing stress,
maintaining health
Stimulus based model - Ans:✔✔-does not allow for individual differences in perception and response to
stressful events
Holmes and Rahe stress scale - - Ans:✔✔-a tool for pt. use
Burnout - Ans:✔✔-become robotic,
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