Real-Life Lung Cancer isn’t as Scary as You Think: Conquers It with Self-Care

Abstract

Self-care for lung cancer patients involves taking care of one’s own health. In real life, individuals know themselves and can take care the best care for themselves. Self-care is the practice of taking care of one’s health to be safe from disease that is done in order to dealing with the problem or solve it. Health problems; own body that was born so that they can take care of themselves reduce risky activities of the body, be able to practice or act to bring the maximum benefit to oneself in life. Learning and remembering activities in which individuals make their own decisions and actions, to meet their own needs in health promotion disease, prevention, nursing care and rehabilitation to be able to live in a normal life: there are 3 levels of self-care in cancer patients according to their ability to take care of themselves: 1) Basic abilities and qualifications; in order to know (Knowing) and to act (Doing) according to 2) 10 Powers of self-care abilities, namely self-interest and care, the ability to control one’s own physical energy, completing ongoing self-care practices, ability to use reasoning, motivation, decision-making skills, have the ability to seek knowledge, skilled in cognitive and intellectual processes, building relationships with others to adjust self-care practices, have the ability to organize self-care and 3) The ability to perform self-care, anticipating, adapting and implementing physical, mental, spiritual, and social affects the body to be able to control the deviated return to normal, have a long life and happy life.