Co-operation between medical personnel, teachers, medical and social team and family for children and teenagers hospitalised with advanced cancer

• Authors: Binnebesel, J , Krakowiak, P

Abstracts

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Cancer is a difficult problem not only for medical staff, but also for non-medical carers. This complexity affects the therapeutic relation to children or teenagers with cancer. Hospitalisation and the functioning of the child in a ward, as well as in hospice-palliative care system have been addressed. The problem of care provided to young patients staying in the wards or hospice-palliative care becomes an important issue for educators. The basic premise of care and therapy offered to chronically and terminally ill patients are the fact that they do not "function" in a void. Finding of this report are based on contacts with sick children in the ward and in hospice-palliative care, and with their relatives and carers during their illness and after their death. All three stages of accompanying the sick, dying or mourning child need an educator who is ready to provide assistance together with caring team of hospital or hospice-palliative care institution or social care, when supporting families in mourning. One of the qualities of teachers assisting the sick or dying child, stressed in this paper is the ability of communication with the pupil. In the past, in multigenerational families, illnesses, death and mourning were openly shared by children. Today, when dying at home is a privilege of the few and the relatives often cannot be available at the moment of death in institutions, there is a need for cooperation of educators with professionals and volunteers in order to provide valuable assistance to dying children and their relatives.

Keywords

EN

cancer; medical personnel; teachers; children; teenagers

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Medyczny w Białymstoku
• Journal: Progress in Health Sciences
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 107-115

Contributors

author

Binnebesel, J

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Krakowiak, P