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NUR 162 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) EXAM 2 | NEW FULL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
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NUR 162 Exam 21. Anxiety
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Vague feeling of dread or apprehension, it id a response to external or internal stimuli that can
have behavioral, emotional, cognitive, or physical symptoms. Distinguished by fear.
2. Fear
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Feeling of being afraid or threatened by a clearly identifiable external stimulus that represents
danger to a person.
3. Anxiety is in life, but can cause many functions
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unavoidable, positive
4. Positive functions of anxiety
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Motivating a person to solve problems or to resolve a crisis.
5. Anxiety is considered
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Normal
6. Anxiety disorders
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Group of conditions that share a key feature of excessive anxiety with ensuring behavioral,
emotional, cognitive, and physiological responses.
7. Stress
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, Wear and tear that life causes on the body. It occurs when a person has difficulty dealing with
life situations, problems, and goals.
8. Alarm reaction stage
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Sends message to the hypothalamus.
9. Resistance stage
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Everything slows down in the body and high oxygenated blood goes to extremities such as the
muscles for fight or flight response.
10. Exhaustion stage
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When a person responds negatively to anxiety and stress. Emotionally and physically depleted.
11. 4 levels of anxiety
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Mild. moderate, severe, and panic
12. Mild anxiety
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Something is different and warrants special attention. Helps the person focus attention to learn,
solve problems, think, act, feel, and protect him or herself.
13. Mild anxiety often people
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Motivates
14. Moderate anxiety
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Disturbing feeling that something id wrong. Nervous and agitated emotions. Difficulty
concentrating independently, but can be redirected.
,15. With moderate anxiety a pt process information, solve problems, and learn
new things
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Can
16. Severe anxiety
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Pt has troubles thinking and reasoning. Muscles tighten, vital signs increase, pt often paces, is
restless, irritable, and has anger.
17. You can use - means to release tension for a serve anxiety pt
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Emotional psychomotor
18. Panic anxiety
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Fight, flight, or freeze response. Cognitive process focuses on persons defense. Adrenaline surge
greatly which increases vitals and pupils enlarge.
19. Panic anxiety main concern
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Safety
20. How to work with anxious pts
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Be aware of your own anxiety level, assess pts anxiety, lower pt's anxiety to moderate or mild
before educating
21. What kind of sentences do you use when working with an anxious pt?
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Short, simple, and easy to understand sentences.
, 22. What voice do you use for anxious pts?
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Low, calm, and soothing voice
23. What meds do you give for anxiety?
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Short term use of anxiolytics
24. A pt with panic anxiety cannot
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perceive potential harm and may not have the capacity for rational thinking.
25. Goal for panic anxiety enviorment
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Small, quiet, non stimulating room. MUST BE SAFE!!
26. How long does panic anxiety last?
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5 to 30 minutes
27. Most common medication class used for anxiety?
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Benzodiazepines
28. Benzodiazepines have a high risk for
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Abuse and dependence
29. Benzodiazepines should only be used for
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