Psychosocial Support Services/Assessment

Psychosocial Care for Patients with Advanced Disease

Providing mental health services for patients with terminal diagnoses, as stable mental health allows patients to physically respond in a positive way.

Perfect Provider and Patient Syndrome Affecting Care

Perfect Provider Syndrome and Perfect Patient Syndrome affect patient care because there are less opportunities for real conversaitons.

Perfect Provider Syndrome in Oncology

Kelly Grosklags, LICSW, BCD, FAAGC shares how Perfect Provider Syndrome can occur in providers who want to do everything they can to please their patients.

Perfect Patient Syndrome in Oncology

Kelly Grosklags, LICSW, BCD, FAAGC shares how Perfect Patient Syndrome can occur in patients with cancer who want to impress their providers. Perfect Patient Syndrome can lead to dishonesty and unreported symptoms.

The Opioid Crisis

Tonya Edwards, MS, MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Supportive Care Department, explains the current escalation of the opioid crisis in the United States.

Safe Use of Pain Medications

Tonya Edwards, MS, MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Supportive Care Department, says that patients are fearful of beginning opioid medication because of the risk of addiction.

Allaying Patients' Fears

Tonya Edwards, MS, MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Supportive Care Department, describes some strategies the healthcare team can employ to assure patients that their opioid medications will be closely monitored and that there are additional methods to deal with pain.

Managing Patients' Pain Medications

Tonya Edwards, MS, MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Supportive Care Department, offers suggestions that navigators can use to manage patients' opioid treatments.

Helping Patients with Pain

Tonya Edwards, MS, MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Supportive Care Department, describes sources of patients' pain and how to help them manage it.

Alternatives to Opioid Medications

Tonya Edwards, MS, MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Supportive Care Department, discusses alternative ways to address patients' pain.