Question

A client is admitted to the hospital for diagnostic testing to rule out colorectal cancer. which intervention should the nurse include on the plan of care?

Answer 1

The intervention that the nurse should take note of and include in plan of care is to test the patient’s stool for occult blood. It is because bloody stools or presence of occult blood in stools is one of the signs that would indicate that the patient is positive of colorectal cancer. The nurse should have a plan of having the patient’s stools to be examined in order to assess and confirm whether the patient is positive for colorectal cancer. The blood from the stool in which if it is present, is from the rectum or the colon of the patient who is positive for colorectal cancer.