Care And The Cancer Patient

The topic of research is important because it relates to how diet and exercise benefit terminally ill cancer patients. Several researchers studied and conducted trials for the major types of terminally ill cancers, including palliative cancer care. The researchers tried to help improve the patients’ health through diet and exercise programs which included nutritional counseling, energy or protein intake, or food and supplements. However, I learned that depending on the person or in this case the groups, that diet and exercise could benefit your overall health and well-being. After learning about diet and exercise and how it helps cancer patients, I recommend that you should always try to eat healthy meals throughout the day and incorporate

Cancer has the most affect on the emotional health. Cancer not only affects the patient

Staging is the process of finding out how much cancer there is in the body and where it is located. It is how the doctor learns the stage of a person's cancer. Doctors use this information to plan treatment and to help predict a person's outlook (prognosis). Cancers with the same stage tend to have similar outlooks and are often treated the same way. The cancer stage is also a way for doctors to describe the extent of the cancer when they talk with each other about a person’s case.

Cancer has one of the biggest effects on the patients mental health but also the patients loved ones and friends. It is one of the hardest things to get a grip on when the doctor tells someone that they have cancer and a fifty-fifty chance of making it. "The disease can bring many changes-in what people do and how they look, in how they feel and what they value" (Dakota 4). It makes people look at the world and their lives in a different way, valuing now what they took for granted and seeing the bigger picture in every scenario. It is something that no one can actually brace, even after the doctor tells them. Through it all though, the person must remain strong and optimistic because the cancer can affect the person's moods and in return affect the outcome of the person and the chances of their making it

According to the American Cancer Society, half of all men and one third of all women will develop cancer within their lifetime (Cancer.org). These figures are staggering. Cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and is a terrifying and unpredictable disease for many cancer sufferers. As such, it is imperative that healthcare workers have a thorough understanding of the various cancer diagnoses, treatments, and preventative strategies necessary to combat this devastating plague. Skills at managing not only the illness itself, but also the psychological and social side effects

The nurse would have arranged for Mr. Thomas to receive training, so that he is able to transfer his wife safety from the bed to a chair. Educating Mr. Thomas to safely participate in his wife’s care will prevent caregiver and patient injuries and will help Mr. Thomas not rely on paid staff to

1. The nurse is caring for a patient suffering from anorexia secondary to chemotherapy. Which strategy would be most appropriate for the nurse to use to increase the patient's nutritional intake?

“To become a high-performing team the team must be competent at goal setting, making assignments and ensuring that team members have the skills to complete them, consensus decision making, setting high standards, holding people accountable, and running effective meetings” (Dyer, Dyer, & Dyer, 2007, p. 74). In the article, “Professionals’ Views on Interprofessional Stroke Team Functioning” Jane Cramm & Anna Nieboer (2011) seek to explain that interprofessional teamwork is considered the core component of integrated care, a complex activity involving many different health care providers that demands effective team functioning (p. 1-2). And in the article, “The Role of Oncologists in Multidisciplinary Cancer Teams in the UK: An Untapped

Those research articles advocated for varied and unique support groups, with no one type that is more effective than the other. Hope Cancer Resources adopts this mentality, as they work to cater to specific needs for specific populations. Hope Cancer Resources works hard to continually evolve to meet the emotional needs of the patients they care for, which can be seen in their recent additions of the Lymphedema Support group and Stage Four Support group. Both of these groups were requested by patients at the clinics, and the organization altered their course to ensure they were catering to their

Yarbro, C., Wujchik, D., & Gobel, B. (2010). Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice (7th ed.). : Jones & Bartlett Learning.

may receive treatment close by their homes (Patel 1). The author uses this sentence to throw readers off from the one negative downfall they mentioned. In another article a Doctor properly discusses all the many side effects. And according to Doctor Lisa Richardson article, “10 Things Every Cancer Patient Should Know”, she describes that “As an oncologist, the side effects is one of my main concerns for my patients. Infection can not only make you sick, it can also delay chemo treatment, put you in the hospital, or, even worse, cause death”. Doctor Richardson- a director for the CDC of cancer prevention- states that these side effects are very important to discuss with patients because of how severe the downfalls can be. While Dr. Richardson

In a recent report, Cancer care in the United States continues to be a conglomerate of cancer care progress, declining mortality rates, and increasing healthcare costs (American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2016). This report further describes how the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has on patients on whether they can afford the medications and treatments needed or not. A projected study in the cost of cancer for 2010 until 2020 was completed using data from the years of 2003 and earlier. This data shows the trends indicating a rise in the survival rates as well as an increase in health care costs due to the increasing numbers of cancer incidence rates (Mariotto, Yabroff, Shao, Feuer, & Brown, 2011). For the year 2020, the

Continuity of care is a concern especially with respect to quality of healthcare. Ideally, the concept of continuity of care can be perceived from the point of view of patients and providers. It is mainly related to the satisfaction of patients with both facets of interpersonal and coordination of care. Traditionally, continuity of health care is perceived as the endless relationship between the patients and identified health care providers. However, continuity of care cannot be evaluated mainly through the experiences and testimonials of patients because it is entangled to other aspects such as case management and multidisciplinary team work (Suominen et al., 2014). On the other hand, providers’ focus on continuity of health care is on improvised models of health service delivery and enhancing the quality of patient outcome. Thus, the two aspects of health care are brought together to enhance the care of patient and to facilitate healthcare centered on the patient. This paper discusses how patient care can be enforced by different multi-disciplinary teams as patient progresses from hospital admission, to discharge or in an outpatient situation. The focus of this paper is on cancer patients and the care that they receive from service providers.

Today, many psychologists feel that psychological therapy can give cancer patients’ a longer life. The first to take this stance was Psychiatrist David Spiegel M.D., of Stanford University School of Medicine, in a 1989 study Spiegel gathered patients once a week to discuss there feelings about the cancer and here they received support from other cancer sufferers. “When Spiegel followed up a decade later, he discovered that patients who had participated in the sessions had survived an average of 18 months longer than those in the control group” (Clay,2000). It is felt that if you can tap into a patients mind and help them deal with the cancer by dealing in the mental aspect of it that it will be

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