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Scanxiety and moving forward
This year has been pretty full on. My job responsibilities have increased and I suddenly became one of the most senior clinicians in my team after a number of people retired and there I was acting ma...
@"Beryl C." I had to create a resource document for wider community. So it was reading multiple research papers and I also included some survivor interviews. Their experiences were what my research had shown which was interesting. The resource I created was a patient brochure designed for after treatment as this is when survivors struggle. I then created a teaching tool for oncology staff and mental health staff so they understand the challenges faced by survivors. The limitations of my assignment was focusing on general patients and not patients with known mestatic disease, as they have some similar but obviously different challenges than those that don't.
Basically post traumatic stress, chronic fatigue, survivors guilt, and grief as well as depressive symptoms are incredibly common in survivors.
The brochure was designed for oncology staff to be able to offer patients in that infrequent post treatment contact time and provides information and links on help and services.
Basically post traumatic stress, chronic fatigue, survivors guilt, and grief as well as depressive symptoms are incredibly common in survivors.
The brochure was designed for oncology staff to be able to offer patients in that infrequent post treatment contact time and provides information and links on help and services.