Chemotherapy Hazards

Mulloy, D. F., & Hughes, R. G. (2008). Patient safety & quality: an evidence-based handbook for nurses. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Retrieved from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2678/

One of the detrimental consequences of chemotherapy’s treatment is losing hair. It is the most common effect that caused by cancer treatment. Unfortunately, chemotherapy’s work is to kill cancer cells, but it also destroys healthy cells that helps the hair to grow in the human’s body. When the patient starts the treatment, hair roots will become dryer and thinner. As a negative result, it will start falling seven to ten days when the treatment begins, and after two months, hair loss occurs completely (“Cancer Net”, n.d.). Sometimes therapies cause hair loss only in the head, but it often appears in all the body organs such as, eyebrows, eyelashes, underarms and legs. So It varies from male and female, and from one person to another because

Each hospital or clinic has their own policies and procedures in place to protect employees who administer chemotherapy. Since some nurses give chemotherapy to patients regularly, it’s important to always follow these procedures and know why they are set in place. According Polovich and Martin (2011), chemotherapy exposure by nurses has been linked to short and long term health effects,

There was an error that resulted in patient harm that occurred on an oncology floor. The nurse was a newer nurse who was hanging chemotherapy and was being interrupted during the chemotherapy administration. The second nurse checking in the chemotherapy with the first nurse was also interrupted. The chemotherapy administration resulted in the entire bag being given during a short period of time because the pump was not programmed properly. Once the error was realized, the patient was sent to the ICU.

Due to the medical regimen prescribed for oncology patients, there may be evidence to suggest that oncology patients are at a greater risk of inpatient hospital falls. The majority of patients initially admitted for chemotherapy treatment tend to be rather mobile and active in their home life. However, during and after treatment their physical strength and mobility can be affected. The purpose of this paper is to address the quality improvement issue of oncology patient falls and improving prevention during their hospital admission.

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Losing one's hair is one of the many things that makes chemotherapy difficult. In fact, it is estimated that six percent of cancer patients will refuse to get chemotherapy because they do not want to lose their hair.

Exposure to chemotherapy as the single treatment and medical risk variable might relate to the seriousness of personal illness experiences related to intensive chemotherapy. For example, reduced absolute neutrophil counts can increase risk for sepsis or typhlitis, which in turn would necessitate hospitalizations, possibly even in the intensive care unit. Similarly, high-dose steroids can increase risk for aseptic vascular necrosis of the hip, associated with pain and requiring hospitalization. Thus, intensive chemotherapy tends to be more potentially life-threatening than the experience with radiotherapy, and the possibility that long-term physical effects attributable to chemotherapy create distress increases with

Chemotherapy treatment is a series of drugs which is administered to a patient who has cancer. Although decision of the treatment is usually left up to parents when it comes to their children, adolescents should be given the chance to have the final say of whether or not it is something they would like to pursue. Providing the adolescents with the appropriate resources and information in regards to chemotherapy treatment can aid them in making a decision which is best for them. The same kinds of effects of the treatment are seen in both adults and adolescents but due to the development that adolescents are going through it has an even greater impact on their lives both physically and psychologically. The physical effects of chemotherapy treatment

As part of an occupational surveillance program for leukemia from excessive benzene exposure 1,832 factory workers were screened using a new diagnostic test. It was determined of those exposed, 214 tested positive, 29 tested negative and 90 non-exposure tested positive. With the use of a contingency table we will evaluate the measures of validity of the screening test used.

The goals of learning in this educational initiative are the safe and proper administration of chemotherapy in the clinical setting. Learning outcomes will result in the knowledge of staff on how to properly and safely administer chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy is the main way of treating AML.It is divided into three phase, Induction chemotherapy, Post-remission chemotherapy and Consolidation chemotherapy.Alone a chemotherapy is not that much effective so a Stem cell transplantation or a Bone marrow Transplantation is recommended (only if the patients is able to tolerate a transplantation) in most of the times. Allogeneic (ALLO) stem cell transplantation (i.e. using donated stem cell)is done in case of patients suffering from AML[17]. This induction chemotherapy is given with (except in case of M3 subtype of AML) cytarabine (ara-C) and an anthracycline [18]. The induction Chemotherapy routine is also denoted by “7+3” because the cytarabine is given to the patients continuous IV infusions for 7 days consecutively and as

Review of the medical record indicates that she was admitted to the hospital on 8/12/16 with complaints of intermittent headaches, low back pain and weight loss. She has previously been diagnosed with metastatic cancer involving the lungs, bone, brain, and liver and started to undergo radiation therapy but has not yet undergone any chemotherapy. She has had 10 radiation treatments with Dr Castello who is her radiation oncologist.

artery and cause him to bleed out into his lung. To avoid this he recommended 20 more radiation treatments which dad was willing to do.

All across the world healthcare professionals and organizations are dealing with the same issue, nursing workplace hazards and the effects it has on nurses and healthcare. Nursing Hazards have been a significant topic of discussion for many health professionals and organizations. Nurses are continuously reporting the issue of injury and illness. The duties that nurses are tasked with put them at an everyday risk of different types of hazards. The safety of employees and health organizations depends on nursing hazards being identified and managed with knowledge, skill, and assessment. It is the fundamental right of health professionals to feel safe at work and to feel safe hazards must be identified and managed. Nurses face exposure to workplace hazards such as blood pathogens and other body fluids, chemicals in the form of solid, liquid or gas, needle sticks, latex allergy, spills, equipment malfunction, the physical strain of the body, and workload. These hazards are under the broad category of biological, chemical, physical, safety, and ergonomic and work organization hazards. The following paper is going to look at workplace hazards and the effects it has on nursing staff. It will also look at how this issue that is plaguing not only the United States but the world can be managed or resolved.