Application of evidence‐based nursing in postoperative radiotherapy care for breast cancer

Abstract

To investigate the effect of evidence‐based nursing on breast cancer patients during postoperative radiotherapy care. In the sample selection, 100 breast cancer patients who received postoperative radiotherapy in our hospital from January 2020 to January 2022 were selected to participate in this study. Patients in the control group received routine nursing program, while patients in the study group applied the intervention of evidence‐based nursing philosophy, the nursing effect was compared between the two groups. According to the nursing effect of the two groups, there was a significant difference under the intervention of different protocols. The patients in the study group showed significant improvements in Self‐Rating Depression Scale and Self‐Rating Anxiety Scale scores under the evidence‐based care intervention, superior to those of the control group, and the difference was significant (p < .05); from the scores of shoulder and elbow functions, the patients in the study group showed more significant intervention effects, superior to that of the control group, and the difference was significant (p < .05); from the skin injury degree of the two groups, the skin injury grade of the study group was significantly superior to that of the control group, with a significant difference (p < .05); from the patient satisfaction indexes, after the evidence‐based nursing intervention, the satisfaction indexes of the study group and the control group were 98% and 82%, respectively, and the difference was significant (p < .05). In the current nursing intervention of postoperative radiotherapy for breast cancer patients, evidence‐based nursing models can effectively relieve the adverse emotions of patients, improve patients' shoulder joint and elbow joint function, reduce the skin damage, and improve patient satisfaction, which has an important clinical spread value.