1. The document outlines nursing interventions for prostate cancer including psychological support, education on disease and treatments, and comfort measures.
2. Independent nursing interventions focus on relieving anxiety through support and open communication, while reinforcing education on the diagnostic and treatment process.
3. Dependent nursing interventions include administering analgesics, chemotherapy, antiemetics, and IV fluids as directed based on the treatment plan which may involve surgery or chemotherapy.
1. The document outlines nursing interventions for prostate cancer including psychological support, education on disease and treatments, and comfort measures.
2. Independent nursing interventions focus on relieving anxiety through support and open communication, while reinforcing education on the diagnostic and treatment process.
3. Dependent nursing interventions include administering analgesics, chemotherapy, antiemetics, and IV fluids as directed based on the treatment plan which may involve surgery or chemotherapy.
1. The document outlines nursing interventions for prostate cancer including psychological support, education on disease and treatments, and comfort measures.
2. Independent nursing interventions focus on relieving anxiety through support and open communication, while reinforcing education on the diagnostic and treatment process.
3. Dependent nursing interventions include administering analgesics, chemotherapy, antiemetics, and IV fluids as directed based on the treatment plan which may involve surgery or chemotherapy.
1. Realize that a diagnosis of Prostate 1. To relieve anxiety about the cancer is a devastating emotional shock to diagnostic and treatment process. the woman.Provide psychological support to the patient throughout the diagnostic and treatment process. 2. Promotes and encourages realistic 2. Provide open, nonjudgmental dialogue about feelings and concerns. environment. Use therapeutic 3. In able for the patient to have the communication skills of Active-Listening, knowledge ondiagnostic and treatment acknowledgment, and so on. process. 3. Reinforce teaching regarding disease 4. Provides knowledge base from which process and treatments. patient can make informed choices. 5. May have anxieties about the effects 4. Review implications of procedure and of surgery and may be hesitant about future expectations. asking necessary questions. Anxiety may have affected ability to access 5. Give opportunities or openings for information given previously. patient and to talk about concerns of 6. Indicators of ineffective coping and incontinence and sexual functioning. need for additional interventions. 6. Perform comfort measures. Preventing destructive actions enables patient to maintain control and sense of self-esteem. 7. In able for the patient to have the 7. Reinforce teaching regarding disease knowledge ondiagnostic and treatment process and treatments. process.
Dependent Nursing Intervention Rationale
1. Administer analgesics 1. To reduce pain as needed 2. Administer chemotheraphy as 2. To complete chemotherapy order administration cycle. 3. Administer antiemetics 3. To treat nausea and vomiting caused by prophylactically, as directed, for other medications, frequent motion patients receiving chemotherapy. sickness, infections, or stomach flu. 4. Radical Prostastectomy surgery 4. Surgical removal of the prostate wherein 5. Administer I.V. fluids and the procedure could include all (radical) or hyperalimentation as indicated. part (simple). 5. To provide sufficient fluid and most of the nutrients that body needs. Collaborative Nursing Intervention Rationale 1. Reffer to dietician 1. For proper recommended nutrition 2. Reffer to radiology department 2. To detect further abnormality in the fortransrectal ultrasound (TRUS) prostate. 3. Secure laboratory results 3. Results from these tests can provide insight into which cancer treatment options may be most effective for you.