Psychological care for advanced pancreatic cancer complicated with intestinal obstruction

Pancreatic cancer causes a great blow to the patient's physical health. Moreover, since pancreatic cancer is very difficult to treat, long-term treatment will continue to consume the patient's vitality, which may cause the patient's psychology to become very fragile and often in a bad mood. So how should we take care of the psychology of pancreatic cancer patients? Let's learn about it together.

(1) For patients who have lost confidence in life and the desire to live, the main purpose of nursing care is to arouse their hope for survival and increase their confidence in overcoming the disease. Nursing staff should use firm expressions and unquestionable language to gain the trust of patients. They should pay more attention to the patients' lives, provide them with life templates and real cases of recovery from the same disease, and guide them to contact them for face-to-face communication, so that they can be freed from depression, anxiety, worry, and depression, regain hope in life, and actively cooperate with treatment and nursing care.

(2) Nursing observation should pay attention to understanding the patient's occupation, culture, family, spouse, children and personal life situation, etc. Understand the patient's true psychological state and subconsciousness, and then carry out psychological counseling and psychological care in a targeted manner according to the patient's different psychological state and psychological tolerance.

(3) When many patients know that they have a disease, they often cannot bear the sudden blow and stay in bed, lose their appetite, and cannot sleep at night. They are in a bad mood of anxiety, fear, irritability, and despair all day long. At this time, psychological comfort and psychological counseling are very important for patients. Psychological intervention can help patients stabilize their emotions, face reality correctly, improve their diet, promote sleep, enhance their confidence in fighting the disease, and actively cooperate with medical and nursing work.

(4) When the disease enters the late stage and the patient experiences systemic exhaustion, pain, inability to eat, and insomnia, the nursing staff should pay more attention to the patient, communicate more with the patient, and guide their family members, giving more care, affection, and necessary life support. This will enable the patient to face reality correctly, establish a correct outlook on life, and guide the patient to distract their attention, such as guiding them to watch interesting TV shows, listen to their favorite music and songs, and enjoy other programs. The purpose is to enable the patient to maintain a calm mental state and fight against death with tenacious perseverance.

How to care for the psychology of pancreatic cancer patients? In the above content, we have introduced the knowledge related to the psychology of pancreatic cancer patients. If you are a pancreatic cancer patient, I hope this article will be helpful to you. In addition, healthy people should also pay more attention to the relevant knowledge of this disease, so that they can find it in time when the disease hurts you. I wish you good health.