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jrubin · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

Nurses and other health care providers need to become more vigilant in recognizing cancer survivors and attempting to link them with the support and resources that they require because

a. All health care agencies provide survivorship care plans.
b. Survivorship care plans are reviewed with the patient after the patient goes home.
c. Many survivors are discharged with no survivor plan.
d. The plan does not deal with future cancer care.

Question 2

The instructor is teaching student nurses about identifying members of vulnerable populations when the nursing student asks, Why is it that not all poor people are considered members of vulnerable populations? The instructor's best answer

would be a. All poor people are members of a vulnerable population.
b. Poor people are members of a vulnerable population only if they take drugs.
c. Poor people are members of a vulnerable population only if they are homeless.
d. Members of vulnerable groups frequently have a combination of risk factors.

tofugiraffe · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
Even though Internet guidelines for care plans are available, many survivors do not receive care at NCI-designated cancer centers and are discharged with no survivor plan. Thus nurses and other health care providers need to become more vigilant in recognizing cancer survivors and attempting to link them with the support and resources they require. Survivor plans are not always developed, and health insurance companies do not routinely cover this type of care. Ideally, the nurse reviews a survivorship care plan with a patient at the time of discharge from a treatment program. The plan becomes a guide for any future cancer or cancer-related care.

Answer to Question 2

D
Members of vulnerable groups frequently have many risks or a combination of risk factors that make them more sensitive to the negative effects of individual risk factors. Individual risk factors are not always overwhelming, depending on the patient's beliefs and values and sources of social support.