With compassion and expertise – our OSCNs provide individual and professional support to our patients throughout their cancer journey, from palliative diagnosis to the dying process. As members of the large therapeutic team in the Clinic for Internal Oncology, the OSCNs are experts in supporting cancer patients and their families. They monitor symptoms, offer emotional support, coordinate care, therapists, and keep an eye on the need for support in the home environment. Thus, the OSCNs serve as an interface between the patient and the doctor, therapists, general practitioners, and nursing services, playing an important role in individual cancer treatment.
During your hospital stay, the OSCN will visit you in the ward or day clinic. You are also welcome to contact the specialist nurse by phone from home with any questions or concerns.
Services
- Symptom control: the OSCN coordinates side effect management – control of symptoms such as pain, nausea, and fatigue
- Emotional support and counseling, as well as palliative counseling for patients and their relatives
- Information provision regarding the illness, treatment, possible side effects, and supportive measures
- Assessment of needs for continued home care
- Support with questions regarding continued care after therapy, finding hospice or SAPV (Specialized Outpatient Palliative Care), hospice registration
- Coordination of care: The OSCN coordinates the individual care and treatment of patients with other healthcare providers (nursing services, AAPV, SAPV, PKD).
- Arrangement/coordination of outpatient care for special provisions: O2 supply, PCA pumps, TPE
- Contacting the general practitioner or continuing physicians for home support needs
- Support and coordination of difficult conversations, e.g., with family members
- Post-hospitalization support for re-evaluation of symptom burden in the home environment and care structure
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More informationGoals
- Improvement of quality of life for palliative cancer patients
- Support for palliative cancer patients and their families in coping with the illness and its effects
- Improvement of symptom burden during the dying process and support for relatives
