Nursing

Assignment-1

Introduction

Nursing as a profession has been built up over the centuries and more rapidly in recent decades as developments in health sciences demand a quality education, scientific, technical and ethical skills to meet all human responses of patient and their families. Nursing can be defined as, collaborative and autonomous care of people of all ages, groups, families and communities in all settings, sick and well, this all is encompassed by the profession of nursing. Nursing promotes the prevention of illness, health and disabled, care of ill and dying people. Promotion of a safe environment, advocacy, research, participation is shaping the patients and health policies and education and health system management are also key nursing roles.

The case taken in this essay is based on 28 year old lady Mrs. Mere who is suffering with cervical cancer. Cancer is a tumor associated with the proliferation of both uncontrolled and indefinite cell clone leading to the destruction of the original tissue, expanding local, regional and general tumor and death of the individual without treatment.

Discussion

Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women. Nearly a quarter of a million women worldwide die from cervical cancer and about half a million are diagnosed with this disease each year. Cervical cancer accounts for 12% of all cancers in women and is the second most frequent gynecological malignancy in the world (www.nursingtimes.net). A large portion of this health burden is in the developing world, where women do not have access to good healthcare and Papanicolaou (Pap) screens. The prevention of cervical cancer is based on a set of rules and guidelines that are aimed at reducing mortality from this disease, thanks to early detection that one can identify cancer in early stages of its existence, in order to treat the disease (www.nursingcenter.com).

Cervical Cancer Region

Source: Spencer et al., 2007

In health care, nurses are considered the heart of it. They take different roles everyday in their job, an admirable nurse is always a great help of patients and doctors she serves. In charge of each patient, a nurse works under the directions of the doctors. Pertaining to treatments and medication, she follows doctor's orders and helps help doctors while performing certain procedures. She notifies doctors when patient's condition worsens, or if there is any emergency situation with any of the patients admitted in the hospital (www.nursingcenter.com). Just like an auditor, a nurse keeps on ensuring that patients are all well examined and it is the most important aspect of exemplary nursing (www.mskcc.org). Depending on the hospital policies, a nurse takes patients' examinations certain times throughout her shift, if there are any changes in the readings or the overall health of the patient and note the changes, if any. To the fullest, she carries out and makes a care plan for the patients (www.nursingtimes.net). Similarly the role of nurse in following case is very important as the patient comes with a severe health condition.

Case of Mrs. Mere

The case, taken into accounted shows that a 28 year old ...