Margaret Edson’s Wit: A Journey into the Mind of a Cancer Patient In Margaret Edson’s play “Wit”, the reader is shown experiences of a cancer patient named Professor Vivian Bearing. Vivian is a scholar who has spent her life contemplating on John Donne’s Holy Sonnets and defining their meaning. Her pursuit in life was to accomplish the hardest goal she could set for herself. Through this she began to focus solely on the academics of teaching and not on life. Vivian realizes this issue when she is treated as a cancer patient with the full dose of chemotherapy.
Adequate rest can relive it. Client may also experience nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation due to the cancer treatment. Client may experience mild complications like itchy skin, lymphedema, erectile dysfunction, and sleep disorder, hair loss, anemia etc. One of the major complication of cancer is metastasis and it one of the primary reason for death due to cancer. Care approach with cancer
Midwives are personally responsible for the health of both mother and baby and only refer to obstetricians if there are medical complications. They work in multidisciplinary teams in both hospital, and increasingly, in community health care settings. Midwives do a multitude of duties, all the while following to hospital policy and maintaining an awareness of issues such as health and safety, examples of these duties are; diagnosing, monitoring and examining women during pregnancy, developing, assessing and evaluating individual programmes of care, providing full antenatal care, including screening tests in hospital, in the community and at home. Midwives identify high risk pregnancies and make referrals to doctors and other
Palliative care is defined as “a medical specialty that focuses on relief of the pain, symptoms and stress of a life-threatening illness and improving quality of life. It is appropriate at any time in an illness and can be provided at the same time as curative treatment” (www.cancer.org/hospice). During this time patients are surrounded by their love ones, and are still getting treated 24/7. They are still viewed as people not as death or burdens. The average patient is in hospice 59 days.
The ward is nurse led with very little medical intervention. The NSF for Older People (2001 p.3) defines intermediate care “to provide integrated services to promote faster recovery from illness, prevent unnecessary acute hospital admissions, support
Komen Foundation. This foundation is the result of a promise to end breast cancer. A promise made by one sister to the other, who was dying of breast cancer. Susan Komen died in 1980, and four years later her sister Nancy was diagnosed with the same form of cancer. Susan G. Komen is the ONLY organization that addresses breast cancer on multiple fronts such as research, community health, global outreach and public policy initiatives in order to make the biggest impact against this disease (Susan G. Komen Foundation, 2015).
FYI - this paper received 3s and 4s on the grading rubric. Just want you to know so you can evaluate this paper appropriately. I hope this helps you. Quality of Life and Functioning Personal Perceptions Personal experiences with death and dying can greatly influence one’s manner of rationalizing the situation. As a nurse with many years of experience in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Nephrology/Dialysis, I have had much experience with death and dying.
The palliative team may consist of the doctors, nurses, councilors, social workers, dieticians, clergy, therapist and trained volunteers. “Palliative care addresses the emotional, physical, practical, and spiritual issues of cancer” (Arthur Unknown, 2010). However, considering that the breast cancer has metastasized to the lungs, and no further treatment options are viable, a hospice evaluation appears to be warranted. Hospice, like palliative care includes the same interdisciplinary team members. “Hospice care is a form of palliative care that is given to a person when cancer therapies are no longer controlling the disease.
An example of blurring of professional boundaries could be a oncology nurse working along side an oncologist and caring for cancer patients day in and day out. As patients suffer and die the nurse and oncologist may lean on oneanother for support through the myriad emotions that come with long term treatment and loss of life of the patients and emotionsl distress of the patients’ family members. If the nurse and oncologist don’t observe professional boundaries they may allow their emotions to become personal in nature. It is imperative for professionals to realize that we as healthcare providers may experience the same emotions of sadness and loss due to the loss of a patient but under no circumstances should this be the foundation for a personal
So, how exactly does one achieve this goal? Obtaining both your BSN (bachelor's of science in nursing), your designation as a registered nurse, and your master's in nursing with an accredited nurse practitioner specialization are the only requirements to become a nurse practitioner. Most, if not all, NP programs will have you focus on a specialized area, such as adult, neonatal, or pediatric care. As was mentioned before, there is no formal examination required to be recognized as a full-fledged NP. The salary and benefits of being a nurse practitioner are also much higher than being simply a registered nurse.