Stress Coping And Anxiety

Question 1

The nurse recognizes that a person who experiences chronic stress could be at higher risk for:

Answer 1

Fibromyalgia
Colds and flu
High BP

Question 2

A patient is newly diagnosed with diabetes and requires insulin injections. He requests information about classes offered by the diabetes educator. Which type of coping technique is the patient using?

Answer 2

Problem focused

Question 3

The nurse recognizes that a patient with newly diagnosed breast cancer is using an emotion focused coping process when she:

Answer 3

Joins a support group for women with breast cancer

Question 4

During a stressful circumstance that is unchangeable, which type of coping strategy is the most effective?

Answer 4

Emotions focused coping

Question 5

What coping strategies can be used in the patient care setting

Answer 5

Guided imagery 
Massage
Meditation/prayer
Relaxation breathing 
Pet therapy

Question 6

The nurse uses knowledge of the effects of stress on the immune system by encouraging patients to

Answer 6

Avoid exposure to upper respiratory tract infections

Question 7

If the nature of the stressor is sufficiently intense or of a prolonged nature, it may exceed the body’s capacity to compensate, thus exposing susceptibility to disease and death

Answer 7

True

Question 8

The nurse would expect which finding in a patient as a result of the physiologic effect of stress on the reticular formation

Answer 8

Inability to sleep the night before beginning to self administer insulin injections

Question 9

Determination of whether an event is a stressor is based on a persons

Answer 9

Perception

Question 10

In the immediate postoperative period after open heart surgery, a patient who is not diabetic has elevated blood glucose levels. What physiological stress response best describes the rationale for the patients increased blood sugar?

Answer 10

Increase of corticosteroids