Breast Cancer Case Studies Samples For Students

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Breast cancer is one of the deadliest cancer prevalent in the modern world. According to the Journal of national Comprehensive Cancer Network, the author Therese B. Bevers, (2009) clearly states that Women in the United States have an increased risk of breast cancer. The incidents and the mortality due to breast cancer has also drastically increased in past decade. Thus considering all above statistics, it is very clear that breast cancer is a grave disease. However, ...

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What term is used to describe the benign condition that may have caused the mass ?
The term used to describe benign condition that might have caused the lump in this patient is called Benign Breast Disease, of BBD. This is an umbrella term that can be use to describe a wide “spectrum of noncancerous changes in the breast” (McCance & Huether, 2014). The current patient does not have any fluid, or expression from the nipple, does not report pain or itching, and has no family history, so cancer is less likely the cause. As such, it would be considered ...

In the given case the nurse should ask the following questions in addition to the ones already asked, regarding the pain. If the pain radiates to any other organ, if there is any relation between the pain and the menstrual cycle of the patient? If the pain increases before or during the menses, if there is any family history of such pains, especially in the maternal side, if anyone in the family has a history of breast cancer, or if she is pregnant or not.

Some of the important causes of breast pain which should be borne in the ...

40 questions answered from two different books.

Health Care Ethics Principles and Problems (Medical Ethics)

Chapter 1
Briefly describe the differences among ethics, professional ethics and health care ethics.
Ethics is concerned with the way people ought to live their lives. It must not be confused with religion even though they may tend to advocate the same values. However, ethics are distinct interrelations among human which can be considered acceptable or unacceptable.
Professional ethics embody regulations pertaining to how persons function within a discipline. It specifies right and wrong actions based on morality. It does encompass principles of being, but the authors of this text ...

A. Personal Perceptions

B. Strategies

C. Holistic Nursing Plan

C.1 Functional Ability

C.2 Providing Care

D. Chronic Depression

Community Health Nursing: Quality of Life and Functioning

Introduction
The expectation of this paper is for the author to offer perceptions of this case study tendered for review; explain strategies to deal with the patient holistically, as well as family members; design an Holistic Nursing Plan for implementation; describe functional ability as a side effect of the client’s breast cancer; devise feasible intervention techniques; offer suggestions for provisions of care the patent could no longer take care of herself and explain how as a community health nurse I can intervene in Mr. ...

The red streaks on the other hand are an indicator that the infection which resulted from the bite had affected the movement of blood within its veins, and this it the reason red streaks could be seen on the shoulder. Pus on the other hand is a white thick liquid that exudes from wound. Its presence in the bite was a clear indicator that the antibodies in Richard’s blood were fighting the pathogens that had been introduced into the wound by the bite and the reaction between the antibodies and the pathogens result to pus. The reason IV antibiotics were ...

Application of the Natural Law Theory in the Management of a Case in Relation with the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care

Introduction

Natural laws are principles with reasons used to examine the human nature and are set by the natural world. These natural laws in most cases use justification to examine the nature of humans and try to explain morality and ethics basing on the religious perspective. Additionally, natural laws often are joined with common laws and norms of the societies but in most cases these natural laws contend that specific rights and values are acquired genetically from parents. In addition, these natural laws are related to ethical and religious directives for catholic health care which actually stipulate the bioethics ...