Oncology social worker for an outpatient cancer center.

Informed by the readings for this week, review the following case study and respond to each prompt below. In your responses to classmates, explore the case study further, ask additional questions, what is different in each of your assessments.

You are the oncology social worker for an outpatient cancer center. You receive a page from a nurse, who reports that a 31 year old patient, Luisa, was just told of her breast cancer diagnosis (T3N1M1) and the treatment she will need to undergo, including surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Luisa came alone for the consult and is very tearful after the visit with the doctor. She shared with the nurse that she works and has a family, including 2 young children and is worried about how she will manage all of these things. She shared with the nurse that she has had many sleepless nights, thinking about this appointment and expressed how upset she is to hear this news. The nurse suggested speaking with the oncology social worker and Luisa was open to the visit.

As the oncology social worker, talk through how you would begin the interaction with Luisa. What additional information would gather? Referring to the readings this week, what might you keep in mind or be concerned about, given Luisa’s presentation? From your conversation, what supports, resources, tools or interventions might you recommend to Luisa during your consultation? Finally, briefly summarize your understanding of Luisa’s presentation and the treatment plan you discuss.

https://www.cancer.org/treatment/survivorship-during-and-after-treatment/coping/attitudes-and-feelings-about-cancer.html

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.