Plan of Care for Lung Cancer Patient: A Case Study of John Smith

Case Study

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Plan of care of John Smith...........................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Lung cancer is the type of cancer which damages lungs of an individual and also causes
various breathing issues with them. This report will based on case study of John Smith who is
suffering from lung cancer. He is having severe condition. This report will evaluate medication
which will help in treating this disease (pharmacological intervention) and will also discuss
psychosocial treatment ( non-pharmacological intervention).
MAIN BODY
Plan of care of John Smith
Mr John is the 58 years old man and having advanced lung cancer. He got admitted in the
hospital for the treatment of chest infection initially and abdominal and severe back pain. The
condition of John is getting worst since he got admitted in the hospital. He has been assigned
palliative care nurse which is taking care of his medication. By seeing his severe pain nurse has
increased the dose in order to reduce pain. John and his wife Susan both has talked with doctor
regarding this illness and have also asked that how much time John his having.
John told his wife that his condition is getting worst everyday and he wanted to go to home and
he wish to die at their home. His wife is very concern about the health problem of John. She is
anxious and she wants that her daughter Jane who does not stay with them is coming to see her
father so Susan was worried that her daughter do not miss to say goodbye to her father.
Although John has been provided treatment but he has reached to the last stage of lung cancer
and he is having less time.
Pharmacological intervention of care
Lung cancer also develop just like other cancers under this cancer cell grows very fast ad
then becomes tumor (Lung cancer., 2020). This cancer will not develop in some days but it can
take many years to grow. Smoking is considered as the most common reason for the lung cancer.
People who does smoking regularly experience some abnormal changes in their lungs in their life
span. Then the abnormal changes becomes tumor and develop lung cancer. Although there are
many people also who have never smoked in their life but also have experienced lung cancer.
This cancer has becoming very common and it is also causing higher deaths. John is suffering
from non small cell lung cancer. This type of cancer is very common. The growth rate of this
kind of lung cancer is also slow as compared to small cell lung cancer. Some common