NURS 302 Study Guide - Final Guide: Blood Sugar, Problem Solving, Cardiac Output
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Stress: condition in which the person experiences changes in the normal balanced state. Stressor: any event or stimulus that causes and individual to experience a biological or psychological reaction to it. Developmental stressor: occur at predictable times throughout an individual"s life. Situational stressor: unpredictable and can occur at any time during life. Stress can have physical, emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual consequences. Psychoneuroimmunology: examines the links between stress, the concomitant endocrine and immunological responses and the development or exacerbation of illness. Models of stress: stimulus based models : a stimulus, live-event or a set of circumstances that arouses physiological, psychological reactions that may increase the individual"s vulnerability to illness. The scale of stressful life-events is used to document person"s relatively recent experiences: response-based models: the non-specific response of the body to any kind of demand made upon it. Arousal of mind and body in response to demands made upon them.
