Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Create a journal assignment in which you address the following scenario: Ms. Morton, a 35-year-old female, is seen in the clinic with complaints of a flat lesion with a scaly, crusty surface on the shoulder. She has an excisional biopsy of the lesion, and the pathology report comes back as squamous cell skin cancer. How would you discuss the risk factors for developing skin cancer with the patient? What prevention strategies would you use to help her reduce the risk of additional skin cancer? Include strategies to increase the health literacy of the patient. Search online for at least one piece of educational material on the early detection of skin cancer. Guidelines for Submission: Use APA formatting for any references and in-text citations. Your journal assignment should be 3 paragraphs in length. Submit journal assignment as a Word document.
