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you're a patient is a 48-year-old female with a history of breast cancer at the outpatient chemotherapy clinic she was found to have a fever of 104 and the nurse noted redness around her PICC line. chemotherapy was held and she was admitted to the oncology unit.
1.what are your primary concerns for this patient and what assessments and interventions would be associated with your concerns and why?
breast cancer
It is a most common type of cancer that develops in breast cells. Normally, the cancer forms in either the lobules or the ducts of the breast.
Chemotherapy
It is a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in our body.
1.what are your primary concerns for this patient and what assessments and interventions would be associated with your concerns and why?
Primary concerns
Assessment and intervention
Why
It so vital to keep the patient away from getting infections since the patient is immunocompromised due her disease condition and due to the onset of an infection on the site of central line .