Specialized in cancer
When you discover that you have cancer, after a meeting with the specialist, you will soon have a meeting with the oncology nurse or the oncology nurse specialist, who will provide you with additional information about your treatment. What is the further role of the oncology nurse?
An oncology nurse or nurse specialist in oncology is specialized in the field of oncology, in other words: cancer. In addition to the nursing care tasks, the oncology nurse takes over a number of care tasks from the specialist and he or she can, for example, institute treatments or prescribe medicines.
First conversation
The purpose of the first conversation with an oncology nurse is to properly prepare patients for the upcoming treatment process and possibly the chemo plan by talking. You can ask the oncology nurse or oncology nurse specialist any questions you have.
Usually, a hospital also has a nursing consultation hour that you can visit. The purpose of this consultation is to guide you as best as possible during your treatment. Practical questions that the oncology nurse can answer are:
• What is Chemotherapy?
• What are the effects of the treatment?
• What can I do about the side effects myself?
• When to contact the hospital?
• How can I reach my practitioners?
• What can the doctor and/or nurse do for me?
• How will chemotherapy be administered to me?
• What does the chemotherapy administration schedule look like for me?
• What measures should I take myself to be prepared for the chemo
During treatment, the oncology nurse contacts the patient regularly to ask how things are going. If patients run into problems at home, they can always contact us. The nurse often sits during the discussions with the doctor, in order to be able to make a good translation to the patient.
