ASSIGNMENT

Assignment

Assignment

Introduction

Breast cancer is the most common cancer for women in both the developed and the developing world, comprising nearly one quarter of all female cancers. Breast cancer treatment is really serious problems and disasters, most patients learn to live with this disease and include it in their daily lives. Adaptation involves psychological processes that occur over time as individual and family to manage the consequences of breast cancer. In fact, most patients have problem-solving skills to effectively solve many difficulties associated with the treatment and rehabilitation. Of the patients who differ in their ability to respond to these challenges and problems, attention should be paid to the study of individual differences in psychological reactions. The main problem areas include the rehabilitation of the physical, psychological, social, sexual, food, financial and professional areas. Each of these areas contributes to each patient's sense of general well-being and quality of life, however, recovery efforts often ignore the spiritual heritage, which also figures in any evaluation. This paper discusses the stress management of a patient, named, Mrs. Thomas by a community health nurse. The nurse also has to deal with the stress of the patient's family.

Part A

A person's own perception of quality of care is very important when he or she intends to provide care to someone really ill. If they themselves lose hope, the patient would not cope up with the illness. If the person giving care is hopeful and provides better care, there is possibility that the patient would also be hopeful and fight his disease. Psychosocial care for patients with cancer is aimed at detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychological distress (PD). PD is a universal clinical phenomenon experienced by at least 38% of patients with cancer, yet only10% are identified as having PD. Nurses are presumed providers of psychosocial care, yet no research examined what nurses perceive as their role in caring for patients with cancer, and whether nurses believe that providing psychosocial care to patients with cancer is within their role. Patient care that rests on assumptions is too precarious; nurses' role beliefs are critical in light of their impact on practice and psychological distress. However, nurses' current psychosocial care practice may fail to detect, treat, or prevent psychological distress, even in the absence of structural barriers. Nurses' psychosocial care appears to lack reflection on its clinical significance. Implications for social change include improving psychosocial care for patients and survivors of cancer that could result in improvements in quality of life (Artinian 2005, 292).

Studies with cancer outpatients reported high levels of anxiety and depression, although age is not necessarily a predictor of distress. Women reports higher levels of anxiety than men. Both men and women report similar levels of depression. Suicide and suicide ideation have been well-documented possibilities for cancer patients suffering from PD. Cancer patients are considered to be at an increased risk for suicide compared to the general population and although this risk could lessen over time depending on the type of cancer the risk ...