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Written Assignment 1: Response 2

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Length: 750 words

Learning Outcomes

This assessment will allow the student to demonstrate competence in the following unit learning outcomes

2. critically analyse and utilise a range of assessment techniques and apply evidence based clinical reasoning in theory, clinical and simulated environments;

5. critique the history of prevention, public health and the evolution of health promotion in local, national and international contexts; and

6 demonstrate respectful and skillful interprofessional teamwork that values the contributions of each member of the health care team, to the management of chronic health problems.

Task

Betty has recently been diagnosed with Colorectal cancer and undergone a series of treatments for her disease.Following surgery and chemotherapy, Betty experiences severe nausea and vomiting.Throughout Betty's diagnosis and treatment for bowel cancer, she will have a number of health professionals involved in her care. Betty is but one of many people each year diagnosed with bowel cancer, and these statistics are expected to increase with cancer diagnoses on the increase worldwide. Considering these issues answer the following questions:

1)Discusstheassessmentsincluding associatedassessment toolsfor assessingBetty'snausea and vomiting.Your discussion should include informationfrom the Betty case study(approx 250 words).

2) Identifytwohealth care team members (other than nurses and doctors) involved in Betty's care in the community and discuss their primary role in the management of Betty's condition.Your discussion should includeinformationfrom the Betty case study(approx 250 words).

3)Briefly outline key health promotion and prevention strategies that are in place in Australia to address cancer as a public health issue.Your discussion should focus on Cancers in general and consider the mostprevalentstrategies to address modifiable risk factors for the development of cancer(approx 250 words).


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Solution

Soumi answered on Aug 13 2021
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Assessment tools for assessing Betty’s nausea and vomiting
Nausea and vomiting are two of the most common and well-known symptoms of chemotherapy. This is majorly because chemotherapy is performed by using drugs or a combination of drugs, which may not suit the patient and may result in nausea and vomiting.
Further, as mentioned by Suzuki et al. (2016), high doses of drugs during chemotherapy are also known to cause nausea and vomiting among patients. Considering Betty’s case with colorectal cancer, inotecan-based and oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy regimens are being most commonly used for colorectal cancer chemotherapy. Both of these drugs possess moderate emetic risk and are therefore, associated with Moderate Emetic risk Chemotherapy (MEC). Suzuki et al. (2016) mentioned that Colorectal cancer chemotherapy with oxaliplatin-based regimens have been found to show severe nausea and vomiting when compared to other drugs used in chemotherapy.
In Betty’s case, she is having severe nausea; therefore, there is a justification behind following oxaliplatin-based routines. Further, mode of drug entry is a variable factor that can result into nausea and vomiting because drugs given intravenous (IV) causes these symptoms much faster than drugs given orally.
In order control nausea and vomiting faced by Betty, consistent antiemetic medication
may be suggested and this is majorly because these medication and chemotherapy effects the same vomiting centres in
ain, prior inhibiting them while latter activating them respectively. However, the antiemetic medicines must have started a few days before commencement of chemotherapy yet these medicines can still be prescribed (Cancer.org, 2017).
Health care team members involved in Betty’s care
There are a number of questions, tests and other records, which have to be maintained, a doctor can only prescribe them however, performing the task of recording them is the...
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