NURS 223 Final Exam - Stress and Coping (From Exam 1) A+ GUARANTEED

True correct answers True or False: Negative stress can affect health. physiologic stress correct answers body's potentially harmful reaction to a stimulus psychological stress correct answers emotional and cognitive factors involved in the appraisal of a threat sociocultural stress correct answers when social systems are challenged by factors (racism, economic hardship, or political upheaval) Selye correct answers one of the first people to recognize body changes when stressed stress correct answers disruption in a normal balanced state; observed only by changes produced in the body stressor correct answers event or stimulus, disrupts a person's sense of equilibrium stress appraisal correct answers process person interprets stressor as threat or challenge positive stress correct answers leads to creative changes, enhances person's life and well-being negative stress correct answers may trigger pathologic changes in tissues (damages body) eustress correct answers positive stress aka... distress correct answers negative stress aka... Roy's Theory correct answers adapt to stress by meeting body needs; get positive identity, perform social role functions, balance dependence and independence nurse's role in Roy's theory correct answers help patient adapt to illness or develop positive behaviors homeostasis correct answers body's equilibrium - steadiness fight or flight response correct answers body's reaction; activation of ANS; pt present anxious, high HR, nausea, palpitations Note: nausea is present because blood flows away from stomach and intestine to the heart General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) correct answers physical response to stress 3 stages of GAS correct answers 1. alarm 2. resistance 3. exhaustion