Nursing Diagnosis: Imbalanced Nutrition Less Than Body Requirements related to hypermetabolic associated with cancer, the consequences of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery (anorexia, gastric irritation, lack of taste, nausea), emotional distress, fatigue, inability to control the pain.
Goal:
- Clients showed a stable weight, normal laboratory results and no sign of malnutrition.
- Stated understanding of the need for adequate intake.
- Participate in the management of diet-related illness.
Nursing Interventions for Testicular Cancer: Imbalanced Nutrition Less Than Body Requirements
- Monitor food intake every day, whether eating in accordance with the needs of clients.
- Measure weight, triceps size, and weight loss observed.
- Assess pale, slow wound healing and parotid gland enlargement.
- Encourage clients to consume high-calorie diet with adequate fluid intake. Also recommend that snacks for clients.
- Control of environmental factors such as odor or noise. Avoid foods that are too sugary, fatty and spicy.
- Create a pleasant dining atmosphere such as dinner with friends or family.
- Encourage relaxation techniques, visualization, moderate exercise before eating.
- Encourage open communication about the problem of anorexia experienced by the client.
- Observe laboratory studies such as total lymphocytes, serum transferrin and albumin
- Give the medication as indicated
- Attach a nasogastric tube for enteral feeding in, balanced with infusion.
- Provide information about the client's nutritional status.
- Provide additional information about the client and weight loss.
- Showed a very poor state of nutrition clients.
- Calories are the energy source.
- Prevent nausea and vomiting, distention, dyspepsia which causes a decrease in appetite and reduce harmful stimulus which can increase anxiety.
- So that clients feel like being at home alone.
- To create a feeling of wanting to eat / arouse your appetite.
- In order to overcome together (with a dietician, nurse and the client).
- To find / establish the occurrence of nutritional deficiencies as a result of the disease course, treatment and care to the client.
- Helps relieve symptoms of the disease, side effects, improving the health status of clients.
- Facilitate the intake of food / beverages with maximum results and as needed.