Taking care of Cancer patients'

To evaluate the cancer patients is more dainty especially when they are hospitalised.   At that crucial stage, you need to identify the area and require to be improved. 

It is important that the cancer patients are properly diagnosis and a constant process of dialogue with doctors be there.  When the patients are in bed, they are thinking of future conditions and thus, economic insurance solutions related to the disease should be kept open.

It has been noted that over recent years an important change has taken place regarding caring for patients.  The bio-psycho-social model.  This model is an alteration of the system at several different but conform levels --- biological, psychological and social.

This revolution is taking place in the field of medicine with regard to chronic and degenerative diseases such as cancer.  It seems to be an evaluation of the best possible treatment. Further, these aspects are directly linked to the patients:

• Quality of life

• Personal aspirations

• Values

• Quality of their relations and needs

During ongoing treatment of the patient precise decision has taken to make aware of health and have a sense of ability to look after their own families or continue to work. 

An important task of the physician while caring for patients, to inform them about what can have been offered to them in order to improve their independence and quality of life.  It is the evaluation of the physical, psychological and social problems of the patient.

It is imperative to bring realities i.e. [the world of the doctor and the world of the patients] which has resulted in a rapid change and increase in the number of instruments available.  These instruments are created to evaluate the quality of life, needs and satisfaction.  Based upon the analysis, it represents a further approach to understand the patients' conditions and their necessities, this may act as a guide for all those who administer care.  Thus, satisfy the majority of the present needs of hospitalized cancer patients.

The main objective is to assess the different needs of cancer patients and to understand their deeper meanings in order to promote an improvement in the quality of care and also the basic demographic and clinical facilities.

The quality of care for cancer patients are solely dependent on these factors:

• Information – The first factor refers to information relative to diagnosis and future conditions and also therapeutic choices and on results of tests.  Knowing everything would hurt the patient. But knowing the most important things is indispensable.  When we are talking about ‘future’ i.e. the length and quality of life though it is worth asking questions, but only up to a certain point.

• Communication – It regards clinicians, particularly the feeling of being [or not] in a reassuring and sincere relation, based on perpetual dialogue.  The doctor-patient communication should be based on a more interactive, simpler and more human situation that needs to be created.

• Relational factor – It is the perception of the patient's position in a wider context i.e. [family, other patients, society in general].

• Intimacy – Fondness can be added on while caring for patients i.e. an empathetic rapport with patients.

It has been observed that the traditional paternalistic doctor-patient relationship is no longer acceptable.  However, the basis of a new clearer and "shared" model has yet to be found where it allows the patient to feel that the doctor is nearer to him/her about any future eventuality.

The patient-physician relationships should be merely on the information-communication basis where the cancer patients at that moment largely need the psychological support, the need for economic aid and the need for spiritual support.

The 'humanization movement' in hospitals, should be culturally based and it will be accomplished not only through education and training processes of health workers but also by structural interventions aimed at contributing the experience of hospitalization more amenable and complacent for patients.

This could be a first step in the direction of real change in cancer patients and it adds value in assessing hospitalized patients' needs.