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It says, what is the priority care for an individual who has undergone surgery due to cancer and has a colostomy? so breaking it down, first thing you'd want to do is assess the patient's condition.
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After the surgery, make sure everything is healing the way it should be.
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You would then also want to monitor the colostomy to make sure it's functioning properly.
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The third thing you'd want to do is provide colostomy care education, because this would be a new thing that the patient would have to get used to.
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You want to make sure that they know how to properly care for it, use it, and so forth.
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You'd want to have a plan to manage pain and discomfort because after undergoing the surgery, there could be the possibility that the patient might have some pain or discomfort.
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So you'd want to have any kind of medications that might be necessary, as well as other things that the patient can do to try to be as comfortable as possible as they're adjusting from the surgery and also adjusting to the colostomy itself...