Chemotherapy Treatment Plan

The doctors who are involved in restoring that individual back to health have the opportunity to witness a miracle; the miracle of life and healing. Becoming a doctor is more than administering medication and seeing patients. Being a doctor is being a friend, forming a familial bond, and sharing the love that a patient needs. It is being someone who gives the patient hope when they feel that there is none. Being a doctor is witnessing an impossible situation become possible. I have chosen to pursue a career in the medical field because I want to expose others to the compassion that all should feel from a healthcare provider. I believe that if I can provide a sliver of hope to a patient they will have enough faith in their process to keep trying. I want to witness first hand the wonders of nursing a premature baby back to health. I want to show love and compassion to the family who recently lost a loved one. I want to be that light; the light that shines in the midst of a dark place.

From personal experience, I have witnessed several family members undergo chemotherapy. Often their side effects of the treatment were worse than the disease itself. Effects, varying form person-to-person, ranged from nausea and

When I read the mission statement, I knew this is the place for me. One of the most attractive qualities of Advocate Children’s Hospital, is the mission to put a wholistic approach to care, and that this philosophy is rooted in the belief that human beings are created in the image of God. As a believer myself, the latter part of this statement not only stood out to me, but also reminded me of my initial calling to become a child life specialist – the calling to dedicate my life to help children and families to navigate life’s most challenging events. I believe a hospital that realizes and understands

I have been exposed to a variety of clinical experiences that have developed my nursing proficiencies and passion for caring for these children. This floor has allowed me to work with patients and families that have a complex chronic illness as a result of their cancer diagnosis and treatments received. It has also given me the opportunity to treat acute illnesses that develop as a result of these children disease process, treatment, and immunocompromised status. These experiences have provided me a strong foundation to build my skills and knowledge of these disease

During her career as a pediatric nurse, she became very connected with a patient who happened to be her first death encounter. At the time, the patient was a six-year-old boy who was diagnosed with leukemia. ML said: "When I was caring for this patient, I was a mother myself. Seeing that boy and his family suffer gave me so much heartache… it was hard not to make it personal." The more she worked with this child, she observed the pain and suffering him and his family had to go through. She also learned about him and the family dynamics which enabled ML to help the patient and the family become well involved in understanding one another and guide care towards an agreement that everyone was satisfied with. As I reached for the tissue box to hand it to her, I rephrased the story to confirm the understanding of the story. She nodded and continued on talking about things she has done for the patient. Being a mother and a nurse, she believed in providing this child with what a healthy boy would be doing at his age. ML's strategies involved promoting short physical activities, playing games, and encouraging the parents to participate in such activities if possible; ML wanted to provide a lighter atmosphere around the unit and help the patient disregard the diagnosis even if it was just for a little while. Over the past few months, she continued to assist this patient as his

You will have treatment every three or four weeks. A treatment of docetaxel takes about one hour (this may differ from other chemotherapy drugs). If your blood count is not high enough to cope with a cycle of treatment your doctor may decide to reduce your dose of chemotherapy or delay the cycle. Once your blood count returns to normal you can continue with

Volunteering in both a children's hospice and a hospital has given me the chance to significantly develop my emotional resilience and proficiency in communication, due to the contact with a variety of people and experience with children who are life limited, which can be very important in the health sector.

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

In "A Problem with How We Treat Cancer and How to Fix it,” Cindy Finch, the clinical social worker, argues that after being diagnosed with cancer five years ago, she could recover from the disease but not from her emotional condition. When she was recurring her medical visits, she noticed that doctors and hospitals are focus on the equipment, and medical resources that help people to survive their diagnosis, but they do not worry about the post-traumatic and emotional support for life after cancer. Finch, suggest that to optimize cancer recovery, medical community must integrate and turn psycho-social healthcare in a new phase of cancer treatment. Using help from a survivor specialist that assist and tech patients and their family, to find

I am going to begin with telling a little about what a Child Life Specialist (CCLS) is. They work in a children’s hospital to reduce the stress

Health professionals will do what is required to alleviate the patient’s suffering by providing treatment, but also by providing support to assist the patient and his daughter. (Ozolins & Grainger, 2015), (ANZICS, 2014), (NSW Health, 2005).

According to Perry & Potter, chemotherapy is a certain chemical given as a systemic therapy to control her cancer. It stops cells from dividing by trapping them in the “G0” phase. There are two major classifications of chemotherapy drugs, but you will probably be given a combination of the two (2013). Perry and Potter go on to say that you may be given the medication by mouth, a shot, an IV, through the artery, directly to the cavity in which the cancer is located, or through a lumbar puncture (2013). Once the doctor puts the order through I will be able to specify and explain in further detail which of these you will be receiving. Some of the down sides of chemotherapy is that the drug cannot distinguish between cancer cells and non cancer

In general cancer therapy included surgical intervention, chemotherapy/hormonal therapy and radiation . Each therapy is usually accompanied with oral complications.

Despite their suffering, they kept their spirits high and it was a pleasure being around them. During my pediatric internship there was a cholera epidemic in a village and our hospital was flooded with patients. My co-intern and I took extra care of the children and visited many villages to stress the importance of sanitation and chlorination of water. Nursing sick children back to health evoked a glimpse of the staggering reward I imagine I would receive as a pediatrician. I have also had the humbling experience of holding the hand of a grieving mother whose child suffered a serious illness or a congenital anomaly. Through these experiences, I have been guided by clinically brilliant yet gentle

There are many different types of therapies for cancer treatment. Chemotherapy is the most common and following that is immunotherapy. A recent method has been discovered that is a targeted therapy. The recent discovery of targeted therapies has offered a wealth of improvements in the field of oncology. Targeted therapy is the most recent type of cancer treatment that uses drugs to attack solely cancer cells while trying to minimize the damage to normal cells. Targeted therapies attack the programming inside cells, what sets them apart from healthy normal cells. A recent targeted therapy of Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs) have been revealed to provide an alternative therapy for cancers that involve mutations in the genes: BRCA1 and BRCA2. These two genes are involved in repair of double stranded break (DSB). When either gene is mutated, the change can lead to errors in DNA repair that can cause cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs) are enzymes that have been recently recognized as critical regulators of cell survival and cell death. Drugs that inhibit PARP-1 help fight cancers caused by mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2.