Anne is a 45-year-old woman who has been admitted to your ward and is scheduled for a left radical mastectomy. Anne's mother died from breast cancer aged 62 years. Anne began menstruating at the age of 11 years.

Aim of assessment

The aim of this assessment is to enable students to complete the short answer questions using evidence based information from relevant literature.

Due Date

Week 8 Monday 24th April 2023 at 23:59. Word Count

There is a word limit of 1200 words. Use your computer to total the number of words used in your assignment. However, do not include the reference list at the end of your assignment in the word count. In-text citations will be included in the additional 10% word count. If you exceed the word limit by more than 10% the marker will stop marking at 1200 words plus 10%

Assessment Marking Criteria

The marking criteria for this assessment can be found in the Learning Guide. It is important that you read this PRIOR to commencing this assessment so that you are fully aware of the criteria and marks for each section of this assessment.

Case Study

Anne is a 45-year-old woman who has been admitted to your ward and is scheduled for a left radical mastectomy. Anne's mother died from breast cancer aged 62 years. Anne began menstruating at the age of 11 years. She is currently peri menopausal. She began taking the oral contraceptive pill when she was 19 years old. Anne lives a sedentary lifestyle. Her BMI is 34 kg/m². Anne eats a healthy diet of varied organic foods. Despite her family history Anne does not conduct regular self-breast examinations. She has infrequent mammograms, not annually as recommended. During a recent doctor's visit, a lump was found on palpation by her GP in the upper left quadrant of Anne's left breast. An urgent breast ultrasound and biopsy was ordered. The sentinel node biopsy returned a positive result. Anne was diagnosed with a stage IIIA breast adenocarcinoma. After consultation with the breast surgeon and the breast care Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC), Anne elected to have a left radical mastectomy. Anne's surgery went as planned and she has not experienced any postoperative complications. Anne was ordered I.V. 2.5mg to 5mg Morphine every 4-6 hours for pain relief. Anne reports she has a pain level of 2/10. Anne's expected hospital length of stay is 5 days if no complications occur. The Breast Care CNC has visited Anne on several occasions to offer support and clinical education.

Three (3) Short Answer Questions

In addressing the Australian National Health Priority Area of breast cancer prevention and treatment use a person centred care approach to respond to the following:

Question 1: Discuss one (1) non-pharmacological nursing comfort measure you can undertake to help manage Anne's acute postoperative pain during the first 72 hours after surgery.

Question 2: Explain the pathogenesis of Lymphoedema that may occur postoperatively for Anne who has undergone axillary lymph node removal during her breast cancer surgery.

Question 3: Discuss one (1) nursing care intervention that you can undertake to help minimise Lymphoedema symptoms for Anne.

References

A minimum of 5 references are to be used for this assessment.

Submission

Electronic copy only. Students are to submit an electronic copy of the assessment.

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Students are to upload the assessment with the following title; Surname_Firstname_assessment title 4. Your assessment must be submitted in .doc, docx format