Question

You are the nurse working in a cancer center. You have been asked to take a position to help counsel patients about their choices once they are diagnosed with cancer. Your position is not to persuade them one way or the other, but rather to give them the factual information regarding their choices, provide resources to them, and be there for any support.  

provide feedback on areas that you will identify as important to make the patient aware of when they are making the choice, such as:

• cost
• involvement
• time
• side effects
• complications
• prognosis
• quality of life
• family effect
• etc.

Answer 1

Cancer diagnosis lead to a crisis for the individual and family because many people know their cancer diagnosis but lack wth treatment option and side effects, recovery, recurrence, emotional disturbances for cancer patient make them more anxiety, fearful and experience feeling of losing control. Effective patient-centered communication and shared decision is important. poor patient health literacy barriers to the effective health care they lack with effective communication that increases hospitalization. As a effective communication informed decisions from nurses and clinicians make them to aware of feel overwhelmed with new technology. patient informational needs very important for the patient and family it enhances their shared decision-making process. high-quality patient-clinician communication improves shared decision making that lower their health care that includes a fee for service reimbursement, another payment reimbursement by the insurance company, out of pocket costs, cost-sharing adjustment, etc. it saves their time for the patient in medical decision when clinician ask the patient for their informed preference. the feedback should include treatment benefits, average lifespan, cancer curability, common side-effects, and clinical trials, complications etc. Improve patient understanding about a preference treatment option, response, palliative care, psychological support, cost of cancer treatment etc. good communication about prognosis important it helps patient to understand their illness, treatment option it improve their knowledge about illness and it will be disease-focused feedback. patient preference for their treatment goal by selecting a less aggressive treatment to maintain their quality of life. hospice care support family members coping with the difficult situation of illness and death nears. it addresses the family needs and implement family and patient satisfaction.