How nurses can support a child during blood cancer/lymphatic cancer treatment? literature review
Mikkonen, Benjamin (2020)
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020060617493
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Children with blood and lymphatic cancer have been focus of research in many countries and it has widely been discussed of being the most common cancer type with children. Children goes through lot of behavioral changes, psychological health and physical appearance. Several different approaches have been proven useful to help children improve their coping and mental health status.
The purpose of this study was to produce evidence-based information of the supporting methods that can be used with children who are phasing cancer treatment. The aim was to provide information by synthesizing existing materials about support that nurse can give to the child during cancer treatments.
The study was carried out as literature review and analyzed with Inductive content analysis. The literature search was limited to child- and/or early stage of adolescent hood patients with the blood and/or lymphatic cancer, and who were going through cancer treatment, and were supported on during the care. The 8 articles that were used on the data were selected from CINAHL database and manual search. The limitation of the time was that the articles had to be published between 2005 and 2019.
The study showed that nurse can help children with cancer treatment by managing the pain, creating safe environment, using Emotion- and cognitive-oriented strategies of coping, supporting child’s parents and including them to the care, securing the self-determination right and providing enough activities to do. For example, talking to the patient and addressing their fears while taking their mind off from the scary things at the treatment. More specified research should be done on supporting child during cancer treatment.
The purpose of this study was to produce evidence-based information of the supporting methods that can be used with children who are phasing cancer treatment. The aim was to provide information by synthesizing existing materials about support that nurse can give to the child during cancer treatments.
The study was carried out as literature review and analyzed with Inductive content analysis. The literature search was limited to child- and/or early stage of adolescent hood patients with the blood and/or lymphatic cancer, and who were going through cancer treatment, and were supported on during the care. The 8 articles that were used on the data were selected from CINAHL database and manual search. The limitation of the time was that the articles had to be published between 2005 and 2019.
The study showed that nurse can help children with cancer treatment by managing the pain, creating safe environment, using Emotion- and cognitive-oriented strategies of coping, supporting child’s parents and including them to the care, securing the self-determination right and providing enough activities to do. For example, talking to the patient and addressing their fears while taking their mind off from the scary things at the treatment. More specified research should be done on supporting child during cancer treatment.