[The new communication system about each patient's treatment from the ward to the chemotherapy center in our hospital].
Because the expert nurse of the chemotherapy center collected his profile from his chart and the hospital summary of nursing and we orientated about the induced chemotherapy regimen to the patient who got it after discharge from the ward former, we could not grasp neither his general condition nor mental status adequately. The merit of the outpatient chemotherapy is the improvement of the quality of life, but the patient feels the solitude and anxiety because of the lack of the medical and nursing staff around him. Then we changed that we have visited the patients to collect their profile and orientate about new regimen on his bedside for the smooth conversion to the outpatient chemotherapy. We visited a-total of 45 patients in 2007. Thirty-eight patients visited before their discharge answered, The orientation of the new chemotherapy before my discharge let me get with a security. The visit also enabled both staffs of the chemotherapy center and the ward to possess the common information of each patient and to do the common nursing. We thought that the visit before discharge was effective for the smooth conversion to the outpatient chemotherapy. We would like to reduce the anxiety of the patients who had chemotherapy and to support their struggle against diseases, cooperating to other department and standardizing our care program.
Yamashita
Maki
M
Nursing Bureau, Hoshigaoka-Koseinenkin Hospital.
Mitsuka
Mayumi
M
Nakamura
Yoshiko
Y
Takeno
Atsuko
A
Tatsumi
Mitsutoshi
M
Nakamura
Takahito
T
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010348:Patient Care Team