Special consideration for oncology and organ transplant patients.
Oncology is a discipline in medicine that involves cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. An oncology patient is an individual suffering from any form of cancer and is undergoing treatment (Lanzkowsky, 2011). Organ transplant is a procedure in medicine that involves removing a body organ from the donor and being placed in the body of the recipient so as to replace a missing or damaged organ (Farber & Abrahams, 2009). According to statistics, in the United States only, around three thousand and four hundred people are diagnosed with cancer every day. These people need to go on with their daily work and activities and still cope with the treatment of their illness. The number …show more content…
This is important as it ensures that the patients together with their families get to understand the whole transplant process and be able to give the needed care. This process helps identify any potential risks and be ready to deal with them. This evaluation provides all the information about the patient and guides the clinical officers on how to treat them (Farber & Abrahams, 2009). Other factors which are essential in transplant like blood chemistries, coagulation profile, liver function tests and complete blood count should be done. This should involve both donor and recipient so as to pick the best suited donor. The donor should also be profiled for infectious …show more content…
For the donor they should be treated for the wound and by given psychological support. The recipients require special treatment to counter some of the complications associated with transplantation. Some of the care, like in kidney transplant, involves immunosuppressive therapy which is a long life treatment to prevent T-cell all immune rejection response. There is also treatment which is anti-rejection induction agents to reduce the occurrence of rejection response. The patients are also taken under constant psychological counseling. Another special care is the close and keen medical follow ups either short term or long term (Iranian Society for Organ Transplantation & Avicenna Organ Transplant Institute, 2010). Both of these conditions adversely affect education strategies especially when dealing with these patients. The oncology patients may suffer from kinds of cancer that hinder performance of some activities or fully render them unable to access education. Also for the transplant patients it would be the same case especially for physical activity oriented strategy. Also the discrimination from other learners and the psychological trauma may affect performance in class. These factors combined with the long hours spend in hospitals getting treatment can adversely affect education
Oncology is a discipline in medicine that involves cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. An oncology patient is an individual suffering from any form of cancer and is undergoing treatment (Lanzkowsky, 2011). Organ transplant is a procedure in medicine that involves removing a body organ from the donor and being placed in the body of the recipient so as to replace a missing or damaged organ (Farber & Abrahams, 2009). According to statistics, in the United States only, around three thousand and four hundred people are diagnosed with cancer every day. These people need to go on with their daily work and activities and still cope with the treatment of their illness. The number …show more content…
This is important as it ensures that the patients together with their families get to understand the whole transplant process and be able to give the needed care. This process helps identify any potential risks and be ready to deal with them. This evaluation provides all the information about the patient and guides the clinical officers on how to treat them (Farber & Abrahams, 2009). Other factors which are essential in transplant like blood chemistries, coagulation profile, liver function tests and complete blood count should be done. This should involve both donor and recipient so as to pick the best suited donor. The donor should also be profiled for infectious …show more content…
For the donor they should be treated for the wound and by given psychological support. The recipients require special treatment to counter some of the complications associated with transplantation. Some of the care, like in kidney transplant, involves immunosuppressive therapy which is a long life treatment to prevent T-cell all immune rejection response. There is also treatment which is anti-rejection induction agents to reduce the occurrence of rejection response. The patients are also taken under constant psychological counseling. Another special care is the close and keen medical follow ups either short term or long term (Iranian Society for Organ Transplantation & Avicenna Organ Transplant Institute, 2010). Both of these conditions adversely affect education strategies especially when dealing with these patients. The oncology patients may suffer from kinds of cancer that hinder performance of some activities or fully render them unable to access education. Also for the transplant patients it would be the same case especially for physical activity oriented strategy. Also the discrimination from other learners and the psychological trauma may affect performance in class. These factors combined with the long hours spend in hospitals getting treatment can adversely affect education