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Potter and Perry Chapter 31

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Why is it important that a nurse recognizes the signs and symptoms of stress?   To aid in personal coping. To design stress management interventions for clients and their families.  
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What it stress?   Stress is an experience that a person is exposed to, through a stimulus or a stressor. It is also the appraisal, or perception of a stressor.  
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What is the definition of a stressor?   Stressors are disruptive forces operating within or on any system.  
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What is the definition of an appraisal?   Appraisal is how: 1) people interpret the impact of the stressor on themselves. 2) how they interpret what is happening. 3) what they are going to do about it.  
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Crisis   When stress overwehlems a person's existing coping mechanisms, disequilibrium occurs, and a crisis results.  
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Trauma   is when symptoms of stress persist beyond the duration of the stressor.  
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