Multiple Choice
The patient is tense, hypervigilant, and reports, "My heart is racing." The nurse understands that the client is experiencing what sympathetic nervous system reaction?
A) Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
B) Split-brain syndrome
C) Blood brain barrier
D) Fight or flight
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