Cancer Rehabilitation Nursing to the Elderly Experience Person with Head and Neck Cancer and Family, under Postoperative Visitor Going to Hospital Regularly

Abstract

PurposeAAer the operation of head and neck cancer is which holds various obstacles which in-uence social life and eating habits. Furthermore, the experience person and the family are faced actually which acquired the obstacle by the life aaer leaving hospital. So they are living with suuer-ing held. In this study, it searches for changes produced in elderly head and neck cancer survivors and their family that held the new obstacle by following the process of pattern recognition together in outpatient nursing. Methodse design of this study is research as praxis. It was hermeneutic and dialectic using Newmans research guidelines. e participants were head and neck cancer survivors who had undergone surgery within one year aaer leaving hospital, and their family members. All participants gave written informed consent to participation in this study. Findingse participants were 4 male survivors in their 70s and their wives. Two-three interviews were performed. Participants expressed the occurrence which is the most interested by experience of the head and neck cancer now. ey have recognized husband and wifes pattern from self-insight, and the caring between families and to the others was seen. In the process of pattern recognition, they told the future route which is useful as cancer survivor, and it changed so that it might live with a new viewpoint. ConclusionsEven if participants acquired the obstacle at the elderly, they came to create the future life which is useful with cancer. is nursing intervention has a large meaning also as the cancer rehabilitation nursing to the experience person with head and neck cancer and their family who held a new obstacle and diiculty at the elderly, and support at the time of going to hospital regularly .