Stressful Lipids

Exploring nursing staffs communication in stressful and non-stressful situations.

AIM To explore the factors that characterise the work environment, focusing on communication among nurses in stressful and non-stressful situations. BACKGROUND Nursing is often described as a stressful occupation. Implementation of change may be an additional stress factor. METHODS Nurses and assistant nurses completed a questionnaire from two different perspectives, 'communication in non-s...

Stressful sleeping.

Stressful sleep.

Few would challenge the assertion that the inability to breathe is stressful. In fact, inhaling carbon dioxide to simulate asphyxia is a time-honoured research protocol to unmask panic disorder [1]. Sleep loss is also stressful, as evidenced by increased cortisol and sympathetic tone in insomnia [2] or sleep deprivation [3, 4]. In the case of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), impaired breathing e...

Learning during stressful times.

Stressful life events can have profound effects on our cognitive and motor abilities, from those that could be construed as adaptive to those not so. In this review, I discuss the general notion that acute stressful experience necessarily impairs our abilities to learn and remember. The effects of stress on operant conditioning, that is, learned helplessness, as well as those on classical condi...

Occupation in stressful times.

May/June 2002, Volume 56, Number 3 The events of September 11, 2001, have changed the world forever (Schuster et al., 2001). As occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants, we struggle to respond to both the tangible and intangible consequences of these events for ourselves, our clients, our families, our profession, and our society. I am sure that many of you have been confront...