As nurses caring for cancer survivors, it is important to ...

[sjones]

As nurses caring for cancer survivors, it is important to understand that
 
  a. Caucasians have more post-treatment symptoms than minority patients.
  b. Treatment outcomes are the same regardless of ethnic background.
  c. Cancer treatment is lifelong, and follow-up ensures that needs are met.
  d. Many long-term cancer survivors suffer needlessly and die.

Question 2

The nurse begins a shift assessment by examining a surgical dressing that is saturated with serosanguineous drainage on a patient who had open abdominal surgery yesterday (or 1 day ago).
 
  The nurse is performing what type of assessment approach in this situation? a. Comprehensive assessment using Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
  b. General to specific assessment
  c. Activity-exercise pattern assessment
  d. Problem-oriented assessment

[GCabra]

Answer to Question 1

D
Despite the incredible advances made in cancer care, many long-term survivors suffer unnecessarily and die from delayed second cancer diagnoses or treatment-related chronic disease. Evidence suggests that survivors among racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations have more post-treatment symptoms and poorer treatment outcomes than Caucasians. Once treatment is completed, contact with a cancer care provider often stops, and survivors' needs go unnoticed or untreated.

Answer to Question 2

D
The nurse is not doing a complete, general assessment and then focusing on specific problem areas. Instead, the nurse focuses immediately on the problem at hand and performs a problem-oriented assessment. Utilizing Gordon's Functional Health Patterns is an example of a structured database-type assessment technique. The nurse in this question is performing a specific problem-oriented assessment approach. The nurse is not performing an activity-exercise pattern assessment in this question.

[sjones]

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it