Nursing Profession: Ovarian Cancer

---If given traits and parents, be able to use a Punnett square or patterns to predict the probability of offspring for a given cross and express it as a fraction, percent, or ratio.---

Write one nursing diagnosis that reflects a priority need for this person. Remember a wellness diagnosis is a possibility.

| In the nursing education the student should be helped to appreciate that not all patients are going to leave the hospital disease free, and that as nurses there is a need to learn that we need to help them in any way we can to achieve their maximum amount

This paper explores a complex patient scenario encountered during the student 's senior semester clinical practicum. Nursing care was provided to a cardiac intensive care unit (ICU) patient over a period of 24 hours in two different shifts approximately one week apart, under the supervision of an experienced critical care registered nurse. The pathophysiology of the post-open heart surgery patient 's multiple disease processes was explored, as well as the interrelationships between the different conditions. The patient 's medical and surgical history was examined in relation to the presenting signs and symptoms, laboratory results, and diagnostic results. Psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural factors guided nursing interventions such as developing priority nursing diagnoses, safety and privacy, nursing assessments, patient teaching, and interdisciplinary referral suggestions. Nursing interventions and outcomes were evaluated for effectiveness. Health prevention and promotion were additionally explored related to this patient 's disease processes to help improve health outcomes.

Whenever people are sick or have an emergency and have to go to the hospital, nurses are always there to comfort them. Nursing is a fast growing occupation here in the United States and makes up the vast majority of the healthcare industry. Nursing is a career that allows people to care for others. Aside from the greatness of helping others, it also comes with stressful situations that require plenty of responsibility because the medical field is always evolving. There is a high demand for nurses. Nurses play a huge role in the medical field, particularly nurse practitioners. Although doctors tend to get the most recognition for patient care, the reality is

This shift in the setting for health care is moving health care back into the patient’s environment and also requiring people to take a greater role in their individual health management. Nurses can offer professional guidance in this trend as well. Proper diagnosis and treatment will be of paramount importance in the future so that health care funds can be better applied and the nursing experience and knowledge gleaned can be more widely disseminated in the field. (Saver, 2006)

Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome (HBOC) and LS (also known as hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) combined likely affect 1 in 250 individuals in the general population, therefore, suggests that primary care providers (PCP) actively cares for a number of these individuals and their family members (Metcalf, Tanner, Buchanan, 2010). Failure to identify and manage individuals with HBOC and LS can result in more harm and increase poor cancer prognosis (Metcalf, Tanner, Buchanan, 2010; Rosato et al., 2013). There are a number of guidelines from prominent organizations including the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention suggesting that identification of HBOC and LS patients can improve outcomes through enhanced screening and preventive measures (Metcalf, Tanner, Buchanan, 2010). Although not recognized as a universal agreement, the best approaches to high risk individuals with HBOC and Lynch syndrome is a primary care setting, until there is universal agreement with improved identification of LS risk measures (Metcalf, Tanner, Buchanan, 2010). Researchers are exploring recommendations to offer genetic testing for LS to all individuals with diagnosed CRC, with the intent of reducing morbidity and mortality in family members (Bellcross et al., 2011). Currently there are no significant efforts on a national level to facilitate widespread genetic screening to prevent LS adult onset conditions in family members of affected individuals using a public health model (Bellcross et al., 2011). The same concepts and processes used in newborn universal screening are being considered as a model for implementing universal LS screening on a population level (Bellcross et al., 2011). In recognizing universal LS

With the aging population at an all time high and continuing to climb there had been a spike in patients with chronic illness. Due to this the way in which patients are cared for and educated must change, chronic illness follows the patient out of the healthcare setting and they must be aware of how to care for themselves and their illness at home. This is a drastic shift in what healthcare used to be about, treating the acute illness. The Center for Disease Control defines acute illnesses as, severe and sudden in onset, for example a broken bone or the common cold. A chronic condition by contrast is a long- developing syndrome like osteoporosis or diabetes (CDC.gov). Treatment and education of a patient with chronic illness is at high demand and nurses must now gear their care towards these needs.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer that affects women in the United States. There are at least two majors genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) that when they mutate can cause breast cancer. These genes can be passed from parent to child, increasing the risk of developing cancer in those child that have parent carrying these genes. BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are located on chromosome 17 and chromosome 13 respectively. There is a 90% chance of developing breast cancer for a woman that has these mutated genes. In contrast, men carrying BRCA1 have no risk to develop breast cancer, but those carrying BRCA2 genes have high risk. It is important to note that mutations in these genes can be passed on to children by either parent. A man with a mutation is just

When entering the healthcare system, accommodating patients should be a top priority for any nurse. A nursing job can be emotionally and physically exhausting. Because patients are in hospitals and home care facilities throughout the year, it never closes. This forces nurses to be away from their families on weekends and holidays. When having a heart of a nurse, the patient’s health outweighs

The profession of nursing is a career field that most people cannot perform due to the tireless efforts of nurses aiding their patients for a better life. Although there is an great difference on how nurses in different practices and facilities take care of their clients. With being an acute nurse their is constantly a revolving amount of new patients who have different needs with various

Kristin a fifty-six-year-old Caucasian female who has been admitted to the emergency department after complaining of acute abdominal pain lasting three days, bloating with the inability to button her pants, and weight gain despite loss of appetite.  Upon her assessment she has had a long length of family history (maternal side) of cancer which included breast, cervical, and ovarian cancer. She was diagnosed with endometriosis at the age of thirty and reached menopause at fifty-four. With this initial assessment, her symptoms, and lab results she has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

I. Attention: There are a number of researches done about breast and ovarian cancer. Breast cancer is the second largest cause of death in women. Ovarian cancer is the fourth largest cause of death in women, but there isn’t a lot of attention brought to the public by the media. There needs to be more awareness about these types of cancers for better

Today, my formal training in nursing, which spans practices of chronic illnesses has provided me with the proper context to identify for my clients what

BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 are gene mutations long associated with high risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found new evidence that it might also predict treatment resistance in ovarian cancers.