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35 Cards in this Set
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Adaption
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- response to stress
- use of coping skills |
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Anxiety
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- vague sense of impending doom or apprehension precipitated by new and unknown experiences
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Burnout
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- behaviors exhibited as the result of prolonged occupational stress
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Caregiver burden
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- stress responses experienced during long periods of home care by family caregivers
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Crisis Intervention
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five-step problem solving technique to promote adaptation and improve future coping
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Fear
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- a cognitive response to a known threat
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Flight or Fight Response
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- the body prepares itself against threat to either resist (fight) or evade (flight)
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General Adaptation Syndrome GAS
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- biochemical mode of stress
- alarm reaction - stage of resistance - stage a exhaustion |
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Homeostasis
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- various biological mechanisms that respond to changes in the environment to maintain a balanced state
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Inflammatory Response
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- localized response of the body to injury or infection; protective mechanism that eliminates invading pathogens and allows for tissue repair to occur
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Local Adaptation Syndrome (LAS)
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- involves one specific body part
- reflex pain response - inflammatory response |
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Psychosomatic Disorder
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- psychologic alterations and believed to be due to psychological influences
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Reflex Pain Response
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- automatic response of the central nervous system to the stimulus of pain
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Stress
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- condition in which the human system responds to change in it's normal balanced state
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Stressor
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- anything causing a person to experience stress
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Alarm Reaction
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- stressor is perceived/defense mechanisms activated
- fight or flight response - hormone levels rise/body prepares to react - shock and counter shock phases |
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Stage of Resistance
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- body attempts to adapt to stressor
- vital signs, hormone levels and energy production return back to normal - body regains homeostasis or adaptive mechanisms fail |
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Stage of Exhaustion
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- results when adaptive mechanisms are exhausted
- body either rests and mobilizes its defenses to return to normal or dies |
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Psychological Homeostasis
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- love and belonging
- safety and security needs - self-esteem needs |
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Emotional Responses to Stress
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- mind-body interaction
- coping/defense mechanisms - Anxiety: mild, moderate, severe, panic |
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Coping Mechanism
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- crying, laughing, sleeping, cursing
- physical activity, exercise - smoking, drinking - withdrawal - limiting relationship with those with similar values and interest |
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Task-Oriented Behavior
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- attack behavior
- withdrawal behavior - compromise behavior |
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Defense Mechanisms
p. 1258 |
compensation, displacement, projection, reaction formation, repression, undoing, denial, introjection, rationalization, regression, sublimation
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Displacement
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- directing anger at something other than the true cause
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Reaction Formation
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- acting opposite of how you feel
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Adaptation to Illness
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- general tasks: maintaing self-esteem and personal relationship
- illness-related tasks: handling pain and disability |
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Developmental Stress
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- occurs when person progresses through stages of growth and development
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Situational Stress
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- does not occur in predictable patterns
- occurs at any time |
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Physiologic Stressors
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- chemical agents, physical agents, infectious agents, nutritional imbalances, hypoxia, genetic or immune disorders
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Psychosocial Stressors
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- includes real and perceived stress
- family |
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Coping Strategies
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- problem oriented
- emotion focused mechanism - long term coping mechanism - short term coping mechanism |
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Crisis Intervention
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- identify problem
- list alternatives - choose alternatives - implement plan - evaluate outcome |
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Stress management
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- relaxation
- meditation - anticipatory guidance - guided imagery - biofeedback - crisis intervention |
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Teaching Healthy ADL's
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- exercise, rest/sleep, nutrition, support system, stress management techniques
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Nursing Stressors
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1.Assuming responsibilities for which one is not prepared
2. Working with unqualified personnel 3. Working in environment in which supervisors are not supportive 4. Caring for patient in cardiac arrest or dying person 5. Experiencing conflict with peers |
