Registered Nurse - Paediatric Hematology and Oncology (CWD)
Saudi Arabia · Riyadh
Care Ward D (CWD) and Care Ward C (CWC) provides acute care to pediatric hematology and oncology patients from one month to 14 years of age. The CWD consists of 9 positive air pressure rooms. CWC consist of 7 beds; 6 positive pressure rooms and 1 negative pressure room.
This child-friendly unit CWD is located on first floor and CWC is located on the second level of the new expansion area of the King Fahad Centre for Children’s Cancer (affectionately known as CCC). The majority of the children admitted to the center are infants, toddlers and of pre-school age. Although patients are admitted up to age of 14, on rare occasions adolescents are admitted if the patient is still under the care of the pediatric hematology/oncology physician.
A sitter or parent is encouraged to stay with the patient to promote family centered care.
The most commonly treated oncology disorders include:
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- Acute myelogenous leukemia
- Aplastic anemia
- Sickle cell anemia
- Langerhan’s cell histiocytosis
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Burkitt’s lymphoma
- Hematological disorders
Due to the predominance of pediatric oncology patients, CWD and CWC also provides acute care to this patient population. The most commonly treated oncology disorders include:
- Osteosarcomas
- Ewing’s Sarcoma/PNET
- Neuroblastoma/CNS tumors
- Germ Cell tumor
- Wilm’s tumor
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Retinoblastoma
No. of Beds: 16
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