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The Oncology Care Unit (OCU) at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford is a 13-bed inpatient unit with a three-chair outpatient area that provides care for oncology and hematology patients. The OCU provides care for oncology and hematology patients who range in age from young adult to geriatric.
The OCU offers inpatient and outpatient services to those patients who require all aspects of cancer care, including intensive education, various treatment modalities (surgery, chemotherapy and high-dose chemotherapy, biotherapy, radiation therapy, blood transfusions, and neutropenic support), pain management, and supportive care for patients and their families.
New Texas Health Springwood Program Helps Women Diagnosed with Cancer Fight Depression
02/16/2009
BEDFORD, Texas — Texas Health Springwood Hospital opened Texas’ first hospital-based program to help female cancer patients cope with depression and anxiety.
The women’s oncology program, offered at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford and Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, offers free mental health assessments to women diagnosed with cancer. MORE
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Support services include family and patient education, cancer support groups, pastoral care, social services, physical therapy, consultation with dietitians, and discharge planning and arrangement of home health services. Specialized nursing care is provided for patients with a cancer-related diagnosis ranging from detection to end-of-life.
As cancer treatments become more complex, patients require increasingly specialized care. The nurses of the OCU provide this level of care. Now the unit has reached a new milestone in cancer care, becoming the first hospital-based unit in Dallas-Fort Worth where every eligible full-time oncology nurse is nationally certified in cancer care. Nurses who achieve these certifications have completed specialized education and examinations in oncology nursing, according to the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation. Since certification is based on current professional practice, it ensures that certified nurses have the most up-to-date knowledge about cancer care.
Once a patient is admitted to the OCU, the patient's episodic acute care needs are determined. In collaboration with the patient and their family, an individualized plan of care and patient goals are developed based on the initial assessment of the patient and the physician's orders. The plan of care and patient goals are reviewed at least once every shift to determine the patient's progress and areas of priority.
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