Nursing Care for Cancer Patients with Body Image Disturbance

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[...] Question Profile of Nurses Can you introduce yourself? What is your age? What has been your professional path? How long have you been working in the service? What were the reasons for choosing this service? Question Representations of the Nurse If I tell you: Cancer, can you mention the first three words that come to your mind? Follow-up question: Can you give me a brief description of what Cancer represents to you? Objective of the question asked: to evaluate the current social and psychological representations of cancer. [...]

[...] Question 11 : Aesthetician Do you work in collaboration with an aesthetician? Is it you who ask them to intervene? Are they satisfied? Follow-up question: Do you call on an aesthetician, a hairdresser to help your patient have a better image of themselves despite the illness? Do you have these resource people within your service? Objective: to evaluate the overall care of a patient by integrating resource people such as an aesthetician. Question 12 : Do you have anything else to add? [...]

[...] Question 7 : The accompaniment How do you accompany these patients in the acceptance of the modification of the body image? Question of referrals: Does the patient accept being followed psychologically from the start? Is his family being followed? What is the role of the nurse in the accompaniment? Objective: To evaluate the psychological care of patients and that of their family, more precisely after a body modification due to illness. To set up relational care in order to help the person in the acceptance of their new body image and in the recovery of self-confidence. [...]

[...] Objective: to evaluate the resources made available to caregivers to help a patient accept their new body image. Question 10: Disturbance of body image When caring for a patient who has undergone a change in their body image, on what basis do you adapt your discourse to improve their perception and self-image? Follow-up questions : Why is it difficult to find the "right words"? What elements do you take into account when developing your discourse? Are there any information that seems important to know? [...]

[...] Have you followed a specific training in relational care for a patient who has undergone surgery following cancer? Objective: To assess the training needs of nurses working in oncology; to measure the relevance of the training already followed. Question The care process How does the care process for a patient being followed in the oncology department for cancer unfold? Follow-up questions : How long does the average hospital stay last? At what moment(s) are patients informed of the hospitalization modalities? [...]