NUR 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stress Management, Sympathetic Nervous System, Sandwich Generation
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To improve quality of life by increasing healthy, effective coping, thereby reducing unhealthy consequences of distress. Mind, body, spirit and cognitive/emotional states and behavior. Stressor: any psychological, environmental or psychosocial stimulus that disrupts homeostasis, thereby necessitating change or adaptation. Extrinsic factors: stressors over which individuals do not have control (death of spouse, weather) Modifiable factors: individual can modify through change environment, interactions, behavior. Intrinsic factors: stressors created or exacerbated by individual response to stress (negative thinking, procrastination) Stress: the physical, psychological, social or spiritual effect of life"s pressures and events. Eustress: challenging and useful stress; not destructive. Distress: chronic or excessive stress; body unable to adapt; threatens homeostasis. Physical, physiological, sociobehavioral and spiritual consequences of stress. Hypothalamus signals sympathetic nervous system: epinephrine or norepinephrine. Increased metabolism, pulse, blood pressure, respiration, muscle tension. Maladaptive: causes/exacerbate disease or symptoms of disease. Affects health outcomes in key populations (elderly, terminally ill, caregivers) Stress response: individual reliance on less healthy behaviors.
