Help Caregivers Control the Chronic Stress of Cancer Care and Manage PTSD
Kimberly Rivera, DNP, RN-BC, OCN®, NPD-BC
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Description
Post-traumatic stress disorder can develop after individuals experience an event that goes beyond their usual stressors, affecting a broad range of people. It is associated with exposure to death or threatened death, including a sudden, catastrophic event due to a medical incident. A cancer diagnosis’s significant psychological stressors can affect not only patients, but their caregivers as well.