What does psychological care for lung cancer include? Introduction to the principles of psychological care for patients with lung cancer

People who are sick often need more care from others, especially those with lung cancer, who need even more care from all sectors of society. When lung cancer patients enter the late stage, they not only have to endure tremendous pain, but also may lose their lives at any time. Therefore, the psychological care of lung cancer patients cannot be ignored just like daily treatment.

Because patients with advanced lung cancer are psychologically and physiologically fragile, especially when they are just diagnosed, it is difficult for patients and their families to accept the situation. When patients are admitted to the hospital, nurses should take the initiative to care for and comfort them, introduce them to the ward environment, the attending physician and the attending nurse, eliminate their sense of unfamiliarity and nervousness, reduce their fear of hospitalization, help them make friends with other patients, guide their families to give them strong support in spirit and life, keep abreast of the patients' psychological changes, and adopt various forms of psychological counseling for them.

Most lung cancer patients' emotions can be aggravated by external factors, but they can also get better because of them. Therefore, nurses should treat patients sincerely, be natural when talking to them, show their concern and sympathy for them at all times, ask for the help they need, make them trust nurses, and confide their inner changes to them. Nurses can capture information in time through talking with patients, and give appropriate psychological care at the right time to eliminate patients' concerns, stabilize their emotions, inspire patients to increase their confidence in treatment, and actively and optimistically cooperate with medical care.

Establishing a good nurse-patient relationship is the premise for timely and effective psychological counseling, so nurses should communicate with patients frequently. They should close the distance between themselves and patients through chatting, listen to patients' statements patiently, and use the knowledge they have learned to properly explain the condition. They should understand the feelings and emotional changes hidden in patients' language through conversations, and take effective psychological care in a timely manner.

Most patients with advanced lung cancer suffer from pain due to tumor invasion of the pleura. The implementation of patient-controlled analgesia can improve the patient's quality of life. However, with varying degrees of pain and the use of PCA analgesia, patients often show anxiety, boredom, fear, sadness, loneliness and despair. Therefore, it is particularly important to provide good psychological care for the patient's pain.

When there are lung cancer patients around us, we should give them normal psychological counseling in a timely manner, let them feel more care, let them have the confidence to defeat lung cancer, keep lung cancer away from their lives as soon as possible, face life with a positive attitude, and find hope to live again.