williamusry

Thank you so much! That was extremely helpful. I will let you know if i have and more questions. Thanks again!

I am currently working on a story for a creative writing class that details much of the intricacies of the nurse/patient relationship in a long-term pediatric hospital stay. The characters are a pediatric neurology nurse and an adolescent girl who is diagnosed with a Medulloblastoma. My goal is to paint an accurate portrait of the intense spitritual and emotional bond that inevitably exists between a caretaker and young patient after months and of daily contact and care. I have completed most of my research covering the medical details (symptoms, drugs, etc.) but I am having a difficult time finding the more basic elements of care that a nurse would provide for a child who has been hospitalized with such a disease. I would imagine that specific prodecures vary from care facility to care facility but I would apprecate any information/insight that you could provide. The following areas are the ones in which I am most lacking: What sort of activities would an adolescent child be involved with during hospitalization? I understand that many hospitals try to assign a child a particular nurse so that the child can develop a bond and grow more comfortable with that caretaker...what kind of hours would a nurse work during a typical shift and how many of those hours would be spent with a particular child to which he/she was assigned? What are some of the daily or routine procedures that would be performed by the nurse during the stay? Thank you in advance for any help that anyone can give...