Question

For colon cancer in 68 years old man :

Nursing Interventions:

1) Explain how you will accomplish your nursing goals, and support this with citations (Reference the literature)

Evaluation:

2) Explain how effective the nursing intervention was (What happened after your nursing intervention? Did the patient get better?)

Recommendations:

3) Explain what the patient or nurse should do in the future to continue recovery/improvement

SIGN AND SYMPTOMS -

• Changes in the bowel habits constipation or diarrhoea may occur
• rectal bleeding
• blood in stool
• abdominal cramps , pain
• anorexia
• weight loss
• weakness

RISK FACTOR -

• Older age - older than 50 yrs
• previous history of colorectal cancer
• previous history of inflammatory bowel disease
• genetic factor
• Excessive use of alcohol
• obesity

DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION -

• screening for colon cancer
• colonoscopy
• liver function test

TREATMENT -

• Chemotherapy
• Radiation therapy
• endoscopic mucosal resection
• polypectomy - removal of polyps
• laproscopic surgery

PREVENTION -

• maintain weight
• exercise regularly
• aviod use of alcohol
• routinly check up

Answer 1

Nursing interventio for the patient with colon cancer 68 years old for particular goals is as follows-

1. To promote relief and interventions for acute pain

Nursing intervetion- determine the pain history, verbal pain rating and relief measures used.

Rationale- gathering information helps in determining better interventions.

Nursing intervention- provide non pharmacological pain interventions using massage, backrub and music and distraction techniques.

Rationale-these interventions helps in relaxing and results in reduced pain sensation that is psychologically linked.

Nursing intervention- use pharmacological interventions and administer opioids and acetamenophen as prescribed

Rationale- these pain reliving medications helps in reducing pain

2. To promote mental and emotional support to cope with the disease

Nursing intervention- encourage patient to communicate, open up his thoughts and use relaxarion techniques and behavior modificarion techniques

Rationale- implementation of these techniques helps in development of better and effective coping mechanism

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