Assignment Task:
You work on an inpatient oncology unit and are assigned to care for a 47-year-old woman with AML who is a week and a half post induction therapy. The multidisciplinary team is now rounding on your patient and asks you for a brief report. What complications would you anticipate the patient could experience at this time? What key information do you think you should provide the multidisciplinary team? What aspects of multidisciplinary care do you identify?
You work in an outpatient infusion center and are assigned to provide a first treatment for a 74-year-old African American man who was recently diagnosed with multiple myeloma. What key assessment and laboratory studies would you focus on and why? Are there any comorbidities that could impact this patient's treatment?
You are caring for a 57-year-old patient with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who is not a candidate for autologous HSCT. The patient had only a partial response to consolidation therapy and is in the hospital to manage an infection. What do you anticipate are the best treatment options available for this patient? What are the possible adverse effects that you need to monitor? What evidence-based nursing interventions would you employ to manage this patient's care?