A nurse is planning the care of a woman who has been admitted to the medical unit following an ischemic cerebrovascular accident. What would the nurse recognize as the longest-acting phase of the womans physiologic response to stress and its cause?

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The longest-acting phase of the physiologic response, which is more likely to occur in persistent stress, involves the hypothalamic-pituitary pathway, not the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary pathway.

A Nurse Is Planning the Care of a Woman Who