NSG2NCI Nursing Patients With Chronic Illness
Question:
Identify your subtopic and provide a brief summary of your journal article on how this topic relates to nursing practice.
What is the nurse’s role in providing care in relation to your subtopic and the overarching theme of advocacy?
What ethical implications should be considered with regard to genetics and genomics for nursing practice? Why?
Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature.
Answer:
Roles of the nurses
The nurse is required to be an expert in assessing the patient’s emotional and physical status, health practices, past history and both the family’s and patient’s knowledge about the treatment of the disease. The oncology nurse always has a better chance to form the necessary rapport for efficient education to the patient and the family members than any other healthcare team. The education to the patient and the family begins prior to therapy and proceeds during and after the therapy. The nurse plays an important role in complex and coordination of multiple technologies frequently employed in cancer treatment and diagnosis (McLennan, Uhrich, Lasiter, Chamness & Helft, 2013).
The coordination involves direct client’s care, symptom management, medical records documentation, participating in therapy, education for both family and the patient, diagnosis and therapy counseling, referral arrangement for other healthcare providers and fluent follow up. The oncology nurse is responsible for direct patient care especially during chemotherapy. The main role of the nurse during chemotherapy is to ensure the correct medication and dosage are administered through the correct route and to the right patient. It is the role of the oncology nurse to assist and triage in evaluation of the disease symptoms and initiation of nursing interventions. The oncology nurse is the one who is closely involved with several supportive care issues that the cancer patient and the family encounters such as survivorship and pain management (Lewis, Bucher, Heitkemper, Harding, Kwong & Roberts, 2016).
Implications
There is a need for more efforts to prepare nurses for the contemporary genomic era so as to transform healthcare through educating the nurses to be adequately skilled in the new knowledge. Increment of more resources is necessary to support and prepare the faculties in the ongoing changes needed to ensure implementation and sustainable integration of genomic content in all the nursing programs. With regard to the genetic for nursing practice, the nursing as a professional play a role in assuring that genomic healthcare is not tolerating ethnic and racial health service inequities. It is because ethnicity and racism are nowadays potential attributes for the population protected from or at the risk of the chronic disease and for the different treatment responses (Vaismoradi, Turunen & Bondas, 2013).
References
Huston, C. (2013). The impact of emerging technology on nursing care: warp speed ahead. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 18(2).
Lewis, S. L., Bucher, L., Heitkemper, M. M., Harding, M. M., Kwong, J., & Roberts, D. (2016). Medical-Surgical Nursing-E-Book: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, Single Volume. Elsevier Health Sciences.
McLennon, S. M., Uhrich, M., Lasiter, S., Chamness, A. R., & Helft, P. R. (2013). Oncology nurses’ narratives about ethical dilemmas and prognosis-related communication in advanced cancer patients. Cancer nursing, 36(2), 114-121.
Vaismoradi, M., Turunen, H., & Bondas, T. (2013). Content analysis and thematic analysis: Implications for conducting a qualitative descriptive study. Nursing & health sciences, 15(3), 398-405.
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