Cryoablation of cancer tumors.

Topic: Cryoablation of cancer tumors.

Assess the legislative and policy–making strategies specific to scope of practice and nursing roles that influence health care services and practice.

Controversial Treatments and Legislative Change

The group will choose a health care treatment option that is controversial and maybe costly. Describe the positive and negative benefits from the treatment, evidence of effectiveness, and the potential harm of a different treatment option. What strategies would you use to advocate for a legislative change in your state to influence insurance coverage for this treatment.

The assignment must have the following three topics:

1. Describe the evidence that does not support the effectiveness of the controversial treatment.
2. Compare and contrast the positive and negative benefits or harm of the controversial treatment.
3. Compare and contrast positive and negative aspects of available traditional treatments.
4. Compare and contrast the costs of the controversial treatment with the costs associated with traditional treatments

• Description of the controversial treatment.
• Describe the social and legal controversy associated with the treatment.
• Describe the evidence that supports the effectiveness of the treatment.
• Evidence that does not support the controversial treatment.
• This will require research and support for what is written.
• Compare and contrast costs of controversial and traditional treatments
• Comparison of positive and negative benefits of controversial treatment
• Comparison of controversial and traditional treatments.
• Describe the process of legislative change in your state.
• Local and state level strategies you will use to advocate change.
• Estimated timeline for legislative change.
• is a fact-based Assignment that will not include your opinion.
• should be in your words after reading the scholarly and fact-based publications and have proper citations. There should be no quotations. The professor wants to hear your voice as a masters trained nurse.

Answer preview

The process of cryoablation of cancer tumors is the process of freezing cancer cells using very cold gases to cover the cancer cells. The freezing of cancer cells assists first in hardening and then diminishing the cancer cells in a cancer patient. Cryoblation involves the use of a long thin needle inserted directly to the cancer cells from the skin of a patient. A cryosurgery treatment is a form of cancer treatment that does not require any surgical procedure except for the use of the needle, cryoprobe, and the cold gas. The treatment strategy is by far the least painful and least time-consuming for cancer patients. Cryotherapy, in some occasions, applies as…

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