Pediatric Oncology Intensive Care Unit

       ICU Nursing Education Programs include:

• Nursing Continuing Professional Development
  • Critical Care course
  • Anesthesia course
  • Pre & Post – Operative
  • Medication Management Module
  • Communication Workshop
  • Patient and Family Education Workshop 
  • ECG course
  • IV Therapy Course

• Nursing Learning & Development
  • First Aid Course
  • Nursing role in disaster and crisis management
  • English Course

• Accredited American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation (ANCC COA).
  • Oncology Course
  • Infection Prevention & Control
  • Quality
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Stress Management
  • Pain Management
  • Scientific Nursing Research

• Ethics & Professionalism in Nursing Practice Workshops
  • Oncology Emergency
  • Hemodialysis
  • Venous Access Device
  • Managing Difficult People
  • Pediatric Oncology Procedures
  • Team Work and Team Building 

• ICU teaching program is conducted for doctors
  • Training for all procedures
  • Mechanical ventilation
  • Central line insertion
  • Chest tube insertion
  • Peri-cardiocentesis
  • Echo
  • Bedside EEG
  • Our doctors join Onco-Critical course including all details of how to manage pediatric cancer patients with critical illness which include
  • Introduction to pediatric oncology and onco-critical care
  • Sepsis and infectious diseases (2 lectures)
  • Organ Dysfunction (3 lectures)
  • Supportive care (3 lectures)
  • Electrolytes disturbances
  • Oncology complications
  • Solid tumors
  • HSCT (2 lectures)
  • Quality improvement
  • Research
• Daily clinical round with senior consultants, stressing on educational purposes.
• Weekly scientific meetings discussing various ICU topics.
• Monthly morbidity and mortality meetings
• Also we can provide courses for basic and advanced life support.

FAQs

• What are the set-up times for parents' visits?
• From 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., physicians meet with parents, answer their questions, and provide them with all of their child's medical information.
  
  
• During their stay in the ICU, a psychology and psychiatry team is responsible for improving the child's temperament due to parental deprivation.
• How can we call for the rapid response team?

By calling 6000 & call for Code Yellow, intensivist will be available within 10 minutes.

• What should I do when the patient goes into cardiac arrest?

The attendant should start CPR & call for help who should call 6000 for Code Blue, the code blue team will arrive within 2 minutes.