The health assessment information required for a diagnosis of the cancer patient in scenario #2

The health assessment information required for a diagnosis of the cancer patient in scenario #2

The health assessment information required for the advanced stage cancer patient would

be the family history of illness (Astrow et al., 2008). In this case, the patient was brought to the

healthcare facilities by her husband and children, and fortunately, these would be immensely

reliable in providing any required information. The health and diagnostic information that the

healthcare nursing practitioners should ask the husband about the patient include:

- Has the woman been given an advance directive before?

- Did the patient have specific wishes in case she stopped breathing, or heart ceased to function?

- How often does she become unconscious?

- Are there any similar cases of cancer in your family, historically and present?

- What medications and treatment have the patient been prescribed?

As an advanced practice nurse, I would continue to provide CPR along with other

measures of saving life in advanced-stage cancer until an advanced directive is determined or

even her family decides to discontinue all resuscitative efforts. Having a terminal disease like

cancer can be disheartening to see someone suffer the pain that has no end Silvester & Detering