Nursing 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Relx Group, Health Promotion, Respiratory Rate
6 Jun 2016
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What is stress: any situation in which a nonspecific demand (a stressor) requires an individual to respond or take action. What changes occur in your physical body: extra energy, respiratory rate increases, pupils dilate, heart rate goes up. If the fight or flight response continues without a break : body starts to accommodate, memory loss, start to feel tired, feel drive, pressured, anxious, acute illness such as cold, flu. Draining energy stores - if stressful situation is not resolved --- : chronic stress- for weeks, months, insomnia, errors in judgment. 3: personality changes, serious illness such as heart disease, mental illness. Mental health and mental illness, not as polar opposites, but as two points on a continuum, A state of successful performance of mental function, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other people, and the ability to adapt to change and to cope with adversity (u. s. department of health and human.
