Question

When caring for a client who has had a colostomy created during treatment for colon cancer, which nursing actions help support the client in accepting changes in appearance or function?

A. Explain to the client the colostomy is only temporary
B. Encourage the client to participate in changing the ostomy
C. Obtain a psychiatric consultation
D. Offer to have a person who is coping with a colostomy visit the client
E. Encourage the client and family members to expresses their feelings and concerns

Answer 1

B

E

D

Step-by-step explanation:

As this is a very delicate and stressful event, not only in individual’s life, but his family’s, too, it’s important to deal with it and not sweep it under the rug. It’s important to talk about emotions. It’s important to tell them how much we love them, that everything is going to be okay. That we are there for them and that we care. It’s also a good idea to talk to someone who is going through the same event. We will know we are not the first person that has to deal with this, terrible, condition.