approximately 23% of all deaths, with half of all men and one-third of all women developing some form of cancer during their lifetime(1) . Cancer is the third most common cause of death in Saudi Arabia.(2) Between January 1st and December 31, 2010, 13,706 patients with cancer were reported to the Saudi Cancer Registry. Overall women were more often affected than men, with 6,579 (48%) males and 7,127 (52%) females affected, giving a male to female ratio of 92:100. The overall age-standardized incidence rate
a form of fatigue management reduce cancer related fatigue In oncology patients compared to no fatigue management? There will be approximately 19 million cancer survivors in the U.S. by the year 2022 (The American Cancer Society, 2014). A cancer survivor is considered anyone diagnosed with cancer, from date of diagnosis until death (The American Cancer Society, 2014). Cancer Related Fatigue (CRF) is be the most distressing side effect associated with cancer therapy, while pain is the most feared
focuses on the quality of life of its patients at any time in their treatment process. Palliative care is a concept that is often used synonymously with hospice care. Although it can be congregated with hospice care, they are not the same thing. Thus, it can easily be misunderstood. Sherner (2015) explains that both clinicians and people alternate palliative care and hospice. Unfortunately, she says, these people believe that palliative care implies the patient is refusing curative care. The purpose
Pain and Fatigue in the Elderly Ingrid Medina Nebraska Methodist College Pain and Fatigue in the Elderly The elderly population increasing, there is more of an incidence in chronic conditions, such as cancer. Cancer is the second top cause for morbidity and mortality in the older adult population that is older than 65 years of age (nearly 71 percent of all deaths) (Erturk et al., 2015). Cancer affects both different processes of the body and psychological process. One process includes
action. Oncology nurses find themselves struggling with moral distress in an oncology unit, which is where cancer patients are cared for and educated by the nurse. An oncology nurse suffers moral distress when they know the right course of action, but feel powerless to act out the choice because of the institution or its policies, lack of resources, lack of support, or legal limits. Oncology nurses provide care over an extended period of time and often administer aggressive treatments. Oncology nurses
discuss about a patient named Mr. Valdez who has been diagnosed of pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is often not diagnosed until it is advanced because the cancer usually causes no early symptoms, leading to metastatic disease at time of diagnosis (Brown & Edwards, 2008). I am going to focus on the adverse patient events that may occur in the oncology department during the course of treatment and nursing care for Mr. Valdez, and the evidence based nursing practice to improve patient outcome. I am
nursing by analysing how nursing practice is applied in decision making considering the individual needs of the patient. Ms LG is a 42 years old white British female with a history of dyspepsia, constipation, continuous poorly localized abdominal pain, bloating and history of vomiting (NA2010/3010). Ms LG had chemotherapy for ovarian cancer prior to being admitted to the gastro-intestinal oncology ward. Ovarian cancer is a fifth most common cancer in women in the UK (NICE, 2011). Ms LG is currently in
Pediatric oncology nurses are given the unique opportunity to make connections and build long-term relationship with their patients and families. Standard treatment protocol for many childhood cancers span over the course of years, with long-term surveillance and follow up visits after treatment has finished. Due to their patient’s chronic diagnoses and the acuity of their conditions, pediatric oncology nurses work in an environment of increased stress. The high stress environment puts the nurses
debilitating symptoms in cancer patients, with frequency range from 60 to 90% in cancer patients (Yennurajalingam, 2014). CRF is defined as “distressing, persistent, and subjective sense of physical, emotional, and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer, or cancer treatment that is not proportional to recent activity and interferes with usual function” (Yennurajalingam, 2014). Fatigue may be an isolated problem or a part of group of symptoms, such as pain, depression, decrease appetite
panting (short repeated breaths), weight loss, and feeling pain in the chest. Causes of lung cancer include repeated smoking of tobacco and a small percentage of people who never smoked. These non-smokers contract lung cancer from second-hand smoke, radon gas, and other forms of air pollution. Caution for the avoidance of contracting lung cancer includes stopping tobacco smoking and avoiding inhaling polluted air. Care given to lung cancer patients primarily relies on the strain of cancer one has, the