NUR2392: Multidimensional Care II

NUR2392: Multidimensional Care II Running head: MODULE 1 ASSIGNMENT 1 Nursing Care of a Cancer Patient Rasmussen College NUR2392: Multidimensional Care IINURSING CARE OF A CANCER PATIENT 2 45-year-old female patient ...

NUR2392: Multidimensional Care II Running head: MODULE 1 ASSIGNMENT 1 Nursing Care of a Cancer Patient Rasmussen College NUR2392: Multidimensional Care IINURSING CARE OF A CANCER PATIENT 2 45-year-old female patient Anna has many risk factors that could predispose her to [breast] cancer. Some of these risk factors include, history of diabetes, smoking, obesity, genetics, age, and noncompliance of diet and medications, (Rebar, Ignatavicius, & Workman, 2018). Patient Anna has explained that she has not been feeling well the past six months and has become unusually tired. Extreme fatigue is usually one of the most common symptoms of cancerdevelopment. She also discovered a lump on her right breast while doing a self-breast exam along with recent right nipple pain. Nipple pain caused by cancer wills usually only affect one breast and nipple. Although Anna did not describe the type of lump she felt in her right breast, it is abnormal from what her breasts normally feel like and a firm, irregular shaped lump is normally cancerous. Anna admits to never having a mammogram performed on herself before. This discovery shows that there was no way to identify this issue ahead of time before it progressed to the stage of development that it is now. A mammogram is an X-ray image of the breasts to screen for breast cancer and plays a key role in early detection and helps decrease breast cancer deaths, (Rebar, Ignatavicius, & Workman, 2018). Since Anna has never had one performed, it is difficult to determine whether the lump is cancerous or not and if so, what stageof development the cancer has progressed to. During the breast exam in the physician’s office, her practitioner palpated a lump in Anna’s right breast, but no discharge from the nipple. Although nipple discharge accompanying a lump in the breast increases the chances of cancer, no nipple discharge is a good sign for the patient but does not rule out cancer completely. Anna also admitted to tenderness in her right breast upon palpation. Normally breast pain is not