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EBMT 2025 | Improving the patient experience and understanding of GvHD impact: the role of the nurse
In this interview, Sophie van Lancker, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, discusses the importance of educating patients and their families about graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). She emphasizes the need to communicate information about GvHD symptoms, the importance of treatment adherence, and any procedures that the patient may have to undergo, such as biopsies. This interview took place at the 51st Annual Meeting of the EBMT in Florence, Italy.
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Transcript
For nurses we have a lot of tools, so we can use this one for assessing the acute graft-versus-host, but it’s very important to tell your patient and their family what graft-versus-host is, what the signs are, what we are taking into account and why it’s very important that they have a good adherence to the treatment plans, because all medications will have a side effect and sometimes it’s very difficult for a patient to take again another pill and they will have 12 or something so it’s very difficult for them, but as nurses you have to tell them why it’s important and why they have to take it...
For nurses we have a lot of tools, so we can use this one for assessing the acute graft-versus-host, but it’s very important to tell your patient and their family what graft-versus-host is, what the signs are, what we are taking into account and why it’s very important that they have a good adherence to the treatment plans, because all medications will have a side effect and sometimes it’s very difficult for a patient to take again another pill and they will have 12 or something so it’s very difficult for them, but as nurses you have to tell them why it’s important and why they have to take it. And also when there are other investigations like a biopsy, give the patient and the family the right information of when it will take place, how it will be done, when they will have the results, and what will we do with the results.
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