From Homeostasis to Havoc: A Nurse’s Guide to the Stress + Inflammatory Response
Update: 2025-05-14
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Join me on this episode as we break down Chapter 5 where we:
• Describe the significance of the principles of internal constancy, homeostasis, stress, and adaptation in promoting and maintaining steady state in the body.
• Describe the General Adaptation Syndrome and the sympathetic–adrenal–medullary and hypothalamicpituitary responses to stress.
• Identify ways in which maladaptive responses to stress can increase the risk of illness and cause disease.
• Compare the adaptive processes of atrophy, hypertrophy, hyperplasia, metaplasia, and dysplasia within the body’s inflammatory and reparative processes.
• Assess the health patterns of individuals and families, identifying strategies that are useful in reducing stress.
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