Advantages: so very rewarding Disadvantages: getting close to patirnts
...I can truly say that cancer has such a major impact on everyone that it touches, I am probably not wrong in saying that most people have been touched by cancer in one way or another and I am sure it has had a huge impact on your life and you family and friends life. As you may already know I have recently qualified as a nurse and I have spent the past 6 months working in a hospice in Swansea where I have met the most amazing people, each and every ... ...Nursing a patient with cancer is truly a rewarding experience, although where I was working was a hospice and patients were fully aware that they were not going to get better but they knew that we were there to help them and make them feel as comfortable as we could during their last days and hours. Do not get me wrong not all patients go to a hospice to die, hospices are much more in depth than that and involve looking after a patient to obtain ...
kirstymartin1984 28.03.2008 (26.03.2008)
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Advantages: Rewarding area of cancer to work in. Disadvantages: Can be emotionally distressing.
...spending time and working with cancer patients. This was spent between my local district general hospital within its Oncology unit, and the local hospice. I was supported by every member of staff there, just as they all supported each other in all that they do. I think that the main thing that I had learnt during this time is that we are there to support the patient and their family, and that essentially it is their own life. Therefore, with our ... ...is right and true for cancer patients. It can be a distressing time for both them and for those who are closest to them, and we must do all that we can do for them in order to make their journeys a little more pleasant. Yet in the same way, it is also a difficult area for us as staff to work in too. We have feelings just as much as the next person, and this shows that we are just simply human beings and that we can to a level understand what our ...
danthepianoman 14.03.2006
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