Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle

Exercise 1

A patient assigned to your care is about to begin multimodality therapy withchemotherapy, surgery, and radiation for pharyngeal cancer.Based on yourunderstanding of the site of disease and planned treatments, what evidence-basednursing interventions would you implement to minimize side effects? Would youanticipate that this patient will experience any nutritional concerns? Are there anypreventive measures that should be considered to address nutritional needs? What isthe evidence for the interventions that you identified? How strong is that evidence,and what criteria did you use to assess the strength of that evidence?