NURSING CASE

STUDY

Diagnosis: Breast
Cancer, Pneumonia

Presented by: Group2 COLLEGE OF NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES

Presented to: Sir Rhyan Tiopianco RN, MSN March 25, 2019
AGENDA

• GENERAL OBJECTIVES
• SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• INTRODUCTION
• CLINICAL SUMMARY
• CLINICAL DISCUSSION
OF THE DISEASE
• NURSING PROCESS
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
• Develop communication
and nursing skills
• Provide privacy and
maintain confidentiality
• Rendering and giving
care to the patient
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• Understand condition of
Breast Cancer, Pneumonia
• Illustrate the Anatomy and
Physiology
• Discuss the pathophysiology
• Develop an effective skill
• Formulate a drug study
• Correlate the laboratory
• Nursing care plan
Women agonize... over cancer; we take as a
personal threat the lump in every friend's
breast.
Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds
INTRODUCTION
• 27.7 percent of deaths in 2014
alone
• 18,000 women were also
diagnosed with breast cancer
• “The greatest risk of getting
breast cancer is simply by being
a female,”
• one out of 13 Filipino women is
expected to develop breast cancer
in her lifetime.
(continuation)
• Pneumonia ranked
third among the
causes of morbidity and
fourth among the
causes of death in
2000
• 829 cases per 100,000
population
• 42.7 deaths per
100,000
Theoretical Framework
Related Literature
• METASTATIC BREAST
CANCER
Metastatic breast cancer is
also classified as stage 4
breast cancer. The cancer
has spread to other parts of
the body. This usually
includes the lungs, liver
bones or brain.
Signs to watch out for:
• a lump felt in the breast
• an inverted nipple
• nipple discharge (clear or
bloody)
• nipple pain
• sores on the nipple and
areola
• enlarged lymph nodes under
the arm
(continuation)
• Pneumonia is an infection
that inflames the air sacs in
one or both lungs.
• DOB
• Confusion
• Cough
• Fatigue
• Fever, sweating and shaking
• Lower temperature
• Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea
• Shortness of breath
CLINICAL SUMMARY
“Sometimes It’s okay if the only thing you
did today was BREATHE.”

Anonymous
CLINICAL DISCUSSION OF
THE DISEASE
CLINICAL DISCUSSION OF
THE DISEASE
NURSING PROCESS
BREAST CANCER, PNEUMONIA