Cancer and Nursing Approach to Care

Cancer and Nursing Approach to Care
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Introduction
A nursing process is a systematic approach to patient care that utilizes the fundamental principles of goal-oriented tasks, critical thinking, nursing intuition, evidence-based practice recommendations, and client-centered approaches to treatment. It is a tool that puts knowledge into practice. As a systematic guide to patient-centered care, the nursing process has five sequential steps (Toney-Butler & Thayer, 2022). These steps are assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Assessment entails critical thinking and data collection. Data collected can either be objective (measurable and tangible data) or subjective (verbal sentiments from caregivers or patients). Diagnosis entails the attachment of clinical judgments as a response to potential or actual health issues. The clinical judgments that assist nurses in making diagnoses for health problems are provided for by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA). The diagnosis utilizes Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in selecting the most relevant plan of care as per the patient-centered outcome. Planning entails the formulation of outcomes and goals that directly impact client care. These goals are as per the evidence-based practice guidelines.
The implementation step is the actual utilization of the nursing interventions arrived at the plan of care. The last step, evaluation, is the process of reassessing the outcomes of the treatment intervention utilized in nursing care. The nursing process is significant for the management of terminal illnesses such as cancer. Cancer is among the leading causes of death on the globe. It is an ailment where some of the body cells grow or divide uncontrollably and then spread to (or infiltrate) other parts of the body where they destroy the normal body cell. Cancer is not only a human being disease as it also affects animals (Aslam & Mehmood, 2020). The health and economic impacts of cancer are enormous and hence significant. Therefore, there is a need for the implementation of an effective cancer nursing process. This study assesses insights into cancer diagnosis and treatment approaches as per the nursing process, complications that may accrue, and the factors that contribute to the yearly mortality and incidence rates of cancer in America. Additionally, the nursing educational role of the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the significance of an interdisciplinary research approach to cancer research are discussed.
Cancer Diagnosis and Staging
A cancer diagnosis is a process by which a doctor performs a physical or machine-assisted exam on a patient and keenly assesses the symptoms to determine if the patient has cancer or not. The symptoms of cancer include weight loss or gain, fatigue, persistent cough, skin changes, and bowel changes among others. Various tests can be used to diagnose cancer. Among the popular methods are laboratory tests, imaging tests, Biopsies, and physical examinations. In laboratory tests, the doctor takes body samples such as urine, blood, body fluids, and tissue cells and measures them to assess the levels of various key body su...