Exam 3: The Stuart Stress Adaptation Model of Psychiatric Nursing Care

A major difference between coping resources and coping mechanisms is that:

Nursing diagnoses:

A patient has decided to resign from a job that involved many daily hassles.Using Caplan's theory of response to stress,the patient can be seen to be using:

Precipitating stressors are stimuli that:

A patient states,"Sometimes I hear voices when no one else is in the room telling me that people are plotting to hurt me." This patient is experiencing impairment of which criterion of mental health?

The nurse initiates the nursing process for the purpose of managing the psychiatric care for a patient with a maladaptive stress response when:

A patient became acutely anxious and hysterical in response to the stress of the patient's home being destroyed by fire the previous evening.The immediate nursing goal for the patient is the:

A nurse documents that a patient is appropriately emotionally responsive,in control,and expresses a unified philosophy of life.This implies that the patient has met the mental health criterion of:

A delusional patient believes that the accidental death of a child was actually caused by aliens.He has become severely anxious believing he is also in danger.During the acute stage of treatment,the expected outcome of nursing care is the:

The spouse of a patient with major depressive disorder tells a nurse,"I feel hopeless about my spouse's condition.It's not like a physical illness that he can recover from." Which response will best reassure the spouse?

A nurse caring for a patient wonders how the patient's functioning has been evaluated in the past.To learn this,the nurse would look in the medical record on the DSM-IV-TR Axis:

Which individual would a nurse consider to be at the highest risk for the onset of stress-related problems?

A patient became acutely anxious and hysterical in response to the stress of the patient's home being destroyed by fire the previous evening.A nurse assesses the patient's treatment stage as:

A comparison of the nursing and medical models of care shows that:

Which statement can a nurse use to best describe the Stuart Stress Adaptation Model to someone who is unfamiliar with it?

A nurse caring for a patient suspects that the patient has a personality disorder in addition to presenting with maladaptive stress response.To confirm this,the nurse would look in the patient's medical record on the DSM-IV-TR Axis:

The greatest barrier to treatment for the mentally ill can be minimized by:

A patient was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and hospitalized.The symptoms went into remission,and the patient was recently discharged to the community.During this stage of treatment the expected outcome will be that the patient will:

Which criterion of mental health is a nurse assessing when exploring a patient's sense of self-determination,balance between dependence and independence,and acceptance of the consequences of behavior?

A nurse assessing a patient is interested in the patient's appraisal of a recent divorce as a stressor.To obtain this information,it is important for the nurse to gather data about which of the patient's responses.(Select all that apply.)