Indian Journal of Surgical Nursing

Background: The experience of the cancer is changing for our client and familiar today a person confronted with new diagnosis often knows someone who has serviced cancer yet cancer remain a frightening unknown for many cell is the basic unit of structure and function in biological system to the basis of composition and organization. Aims and Objectives: The present descriptive research design with Cross Sectional survey approach was used to assess the level of depression among the cancer patient in oncology ward and OPD in selected Hospital among 60 cancer patients at Dr. Vikhe Patil Memorial Hospital, Ahmednagar. The data were collected by using the Beck's Depression inventory scale and structured Interview Schedule. The results were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The overall results revealed that the Majority of 38.33 % cancer patients following in the categories in ups and down are considered as a normal depression (1-10), 28.33 % of cancer patients had mild mood disturbance, 18.33 % of cancer patients has moderate level of depression, 11.66 % & 3.33 % of cancer patients had borderline and severe depression respectively and none of cancer patients had extreme level of depression. There was Significant association was found between the Level of depression with sex (P≤ 0.05 level). There was significant positive relationship found between the depression scale and with their selected demographic variables. Conclusion: It is essential to raise awareness on cancer treatment and its impact on health; and develop health seeking behaviors among the patients and caregivers to provide better cancer care and improve the quality of life.

Perioperative care is the entire span of care that includes what occurs before, during, and after the actual operation. It is the period that begins when the patient has been informed of the need for surgery includes the surgical procedure, recovery and continues until the patient resumes his or her usual activities. identifying comorbidities that may lead to patient complications during the anesthetic, surgical, or postoperative period. The assessment contains height and weight, ability to communicate, level of conciseness, confusion, ability to ambulate, etc. The medical staff carefully explains to the patient about surgery. This includes why the patient requires surgery, any risks the surgery has, and what the patient can expect after surgery. Intraoperative Care-Intraoperative care starts from the admission of the patient to the operating room to the client is transported to the recovery room or post anesthesia care unit after surgery. Surgical Team: The surgeon is the leader of the surgical team. He performs surgery effectively and safely. Scrub Nurse: The scrub nurse assists the surgeon during the procedure and provides required instruments and sets up in the sterile table. Circulating Nurse: The circulating nurse manages the operating room and protects safety by monitoring the activities of the surgical team. Postoperative Care: Postoperative care is the care given after a surgical procedure. It begins immediately after surgery and lasts for the duration of the hospital stay and may continue after the patient has been discharged.

Behavioral science is the discipline dealing with the subject of human actions of sociology, social and cultural anthropology, psychology, and behavioral aspects such as biology, economics, political science, geography, law, and psychiatry. Behavioral Science provides timely intuition to double down strategies to revive the now dampened demand for essential public health services within the society. The coronavirus is bringing down the ‘perceived risk’ posed by other health issues than the Covid-19. All the communications involving public health activities in current times must adopt a framing which actively challenges behavioral barriers. People are nowadays negotiating between the harms of exposure to the pandemic and the useful benefits of other health services. This calculus can go very wrong and ties in squarely with the behavioral barriers of ‘availability bias’, ‘loss aversion’, and ‘hyperbolic discounting’. The World Health Organization in their briefing has indicated that COVID-19 may become endemic, like HIV, and never go away without proper preventive, protective measures and eradicating programmes. As we see behavioral science has brought many changes in the life of peoples and modifying their behavior in preventing the Virus, affecting people and staying safe: So behavioral Science is the back bone of the general public health system.