What happens when a person uses all of his or her adaptive energy?
a. The body defends itself through the fight-or-flight response.
b. Stress-avoidance measures are evoked.
c. Illness, disease, or even death may occur.
d. Unconscious operations begin to defend the mind from anxiety.
C
According to Selye, each person has adaptive energy to respond or adapt to stress, but the amount of adaptive energy varies from person to person. Those who have expended all of their adaptive energy are unable to change and adapt to the needs of their environment; they can become ill, develop a disease, or even die as a result.
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The LPN/LVN will be responsible for collecting data on the postoperative client. Priority assessments include:(Select all that apply) Standard Text: Select all that apply
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a. alternative therapies c. congruent therapies b. complementary ther-apies d. nonconventional therapies
Which of the following is not a step in the phenomenological approach?
A) Bracketing B) Inferring C) Analyzing D) Describing