The American Cancer Society has come up with a quick way to remember the warning signs of cancer when teaching and educating clients about cancer. As a healthcare worker, it is important to teach and educate clients
a. What does the acronym CAUTION stand for and what other warning signs can you include in your education/teaching session with your clients?
b. What are some of the diagnostic testing or self-exam teaching can you give as examples to your clients?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. Discussion should include signs and symptoms such as headaches that don't go away, weight loss, poor appetite, bone pain, chronic pain, low-grade fever, fatigue, n/v, and what each letter of the word "CAUTION" means.
b. Some diagnostic testing to be included in discussion would be yearly mammograms, colonoscopy, laboratory tests, proctoscopy, x-rays, CT scans, MRI, and ultrasounds.
Some of the self-teaching exams to include in discussion in teaching your clients to do at home would be inspecting their skin for abnormal growths, moles or lesions, breast exams, testicle exams, and abdominal exams to look for abnormal lumps.
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