During an assessment, the nurse learns that a client has been having periodic upper respiratory infections since experiencing the death of a close family member. The nurse identifies this client's reaction to stress as being a
1. stimulus.
2. response.
3. transaction.
4. negotiation.
Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Stress is defined as a stimulus, a life event, or a set of circumstances that arouses physiological and/or psychological reactions that can increase the individual's vulnerability to illness.
Rationale 2: Stress that is considered as a response is defined as the nonspecific response of the body to any kind of demand made upon it.
Rationale 3: Stress that is a transaction refers to any event in which environmental demands, internal demands, or both tax or exceed the adaptive resources of an individual, social system, or tissue system. The individual responds to perceived environmental changes with adaptive or coping responses.
Rationale 4: Negotiation is not a type of stress reaction.
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