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Assignment:

When caring for someone going through cancer treatment often the psychosocial care you provide is more important than the physical care. This assignment explores the psychosocial and cultural care of a young Aboriginal woman with breast cancer.

Watch Thunder Blanket episode 1,

Answer the following questions from the perspective of "you are the nurse assigned to care for Roxann and her family".

1. Describe the feelings you experienced watching this video? What triggered these feelings?
2. What personal values of yours, did you feel were challenged when watching the videos? Describe how the situation in the video challenged your values?
3. How do think these feelings/values might influence your care of Roxann?
4. How do Roxann's personal, spiritual and cultural beliefs influence her approach to her diagnosis and care?
5. When working collaboratively with Roxann and the health care team, what personal, spiritual and cultural care practices will you need to integrate into her plan of care?
6. What impact do the social determinants of health have on Roxann? How do these influence her plan of care?
7. Identify two psychosocial nursing diagnosis that you would include in Roxann's plan of care.
8. Write an outcome statement for each of the two diagnoses in question #7.
9. Identify three client centered nursing interventions you would include in Roxann's plan of care for each of the nursing diagnosis in question #7 to meet the outcomes identified in question #8.

Synopsis of the episodes:

Thunder Blanket, Episode 1

Thunder Blanket explores a young Aboriginal woman's battle against breast cancer. In the first episode of this five-part series, we meet Roxann Karonhiarokwas Whitebean, a young Mohawk mother and independent filmmaker who struggles to cope with the shock of diagnosis, the continued demands of raising a household of four, and the anxiety towards the long recovery ahead. Faced with the loss of her independence and outside pressure to undergo a traditional healing process, Roxann decides to strike a balance between traditional and modern treatment methods, all while bracing herself for the traumatic first step in the journey: losing her hair.