Question

A patient has recently been diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma. the nurse helps the patient understand that:

Answer 1

The nurse should help the patient who has acoustic neuroma to understand his or her situation in a way of which his or her sickness is about, symptoms that he or she could have experienced and the treatment that is advisable for his or her disease. The nurse should explain to the patient that there will be a presence of tumor in the patient’s cranial nerve and it would likely cause for his or hearing to be lost and could cause vertigo as this tumor has grown in the eight cranial nerve where in they are the ones responsible in the human’s balance and in hearing.