Does any nurse here work on an Gyne/Oncology Unit?

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Hi there

I would like to know if there are any nurses here on this forum that work on a Gyne Oncology Unit. If there are, can you please share some information as to what it is like to work on this type of unit.

I would like to work on a Gynecology Unit but the Oncology Unit throws me off in thinking I will be handling chemotherapy drugs?

Any information you can share I would be happy.

Is your unit heavy too? What makes it heavy?

Thank you:nurse::jester:

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Specializes in Telemetry, ICU, Resource Pool, Dialysis.

Gyn-onc units are going to be different wherever you are. The last hospital I worked for had a generic unit which handled post-partum, OB, and Gyn-Onc pts. If the gyn-onc pts needed chemo, they transferred to the oncology floor. The pts who were on the floor were always post-op Gyn-Onc pts.

If your unit required chemo admin, I'm sure they will be happy to get you hooked up with a chemo-certification course.

We had a ratio of 4:1 at that hospital, so the load was very doable. Many of them had PCAs or epidurals, so handling more than 4 might have been tough.

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I've been on a gyn and breast onc med/surg unit for about 2 years. I am chemo certified, so I can hang many chemos. We also have chemo nurses that administer vesicants. Hospital guidelines determine which chemos a floor nurse can give. Day nurses generally have 5-7 patients, night nurses have 7-10. We have both postops and medicine patients. Heavy most times because they are very sick or dying, and some times because 99% of our patients are women (lots of emotional support for anxiety and depression).

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I work on a Gyn/Onc floor but for chemo our patients either move off the floor or our IV nurses do the chemo. We have a floor in the hospital for chemo so once their gyn issues are resolved they usually get moved there its larger, all private rooms and very quiet. Not like our busy Gyn floor.

Our ration days is 4 or 5 patients.. nights is 5-6 depending on acuity.

On our floor what makes it oncology is the mastectomy patients or pts we get with uterine/ovarian cancer. It really is a nice floor to work on.

Goodl luck

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