Providing care for patients preparing for and recovering from autologous, allogenic, and haploid bone marrow and stem cell transplants as well as patients admitted to receive chemotherapy to treat their disease. Patients may be diagnosed with a wide range of blood diseases including leukemia, anemia, and Hodgkin's diseases. Basic nursing care such as informing and educating patients, keeping patient records, checking patients’ vital signs, drawing blood, dressing wounds, administering medications, and helping patients with everyday tasks like eating, dressing, and bathing is provided. Additionally tasks specialized to this patient population include administering chemotherapy as well as frequent blood product transfusions and the monitoring that accompanies these procedures.

Nursing assistant on an inpatient hematology/oncology unit