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After Completion of Therapy (ACT) Clinic, Do You Know...
After Completion of Therapy (ACT) Clinic, Do You Know...
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Bedside report - Do You Know Educational Series
While your child is admitted to a St. Jude inpatient unit, we welcome and encourage you to take an active role in your child’s care.
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Borrowing Family Resource Center materials - Do You Know Educational Series
You can borrow most of the books, DVDs and CDs in the Family Resource Center. All you need to do is check them out.
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Daily weights - Do You Know Educational Series
Treatments and medicines used to fight disease can affect your child's weight in just a short time. Knowing your child’s weight helps staff members make safe and effective treatment choices ...
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Discharge from the hospital - Do You Know Educational Series
When your child is well enough to leave the hospital, many St. Jude staff members will work together to prepare you and your child for discharge. However, the discharge process begins at admission ...
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Finding reliable health information on the Web - Do You Know Educational Series
The Internet can be a great source of information when you are learning about your child's illness and treatment options. But choosing a reliable source is not always easy.
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Focusing on Hope - Do You Know Educational Series
The St. Jude staff believes that hope is essential to Life. Hope can directly affect the well-being of young patients by helping them make the best of difficult moments.
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Giving consent for an autopsy - Do You Know Educational Series
An autopsy is a medical exam of the body after a person has died. The purpose of an autopsy is to answer questions about the patient’s illness and cause of death.
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HopeNet and Family Resource Center computer use - Do You Know Educational Series
HopeNet is a service that St. Jude offers to give patient families and visitors access to the Internet.
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How HIPAA protects your child's privacy - Do You Know Educational Series
Most of us feel that our medical and other health information is private and should be protected, and we want to know who has this information. HIPAA is a federal law that gives you rights over your child’s health information, and it limits who can look at and receive your child’s information.
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Inpatient guidelines and what to expect - Do You Know Educational Series
During your time at St. Jude, your child might be admitted as an inpatient at one time or another to the Hematology-Oncology Inpatient Unit. This handout offers guidelines and explains some things that will happen throughout your child’s inpatient stay.
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Le Bonheur Children's Hospital - Do You Know Educational Series
There may be times when your child will need to be admitted to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. The information in this handout will help make your time at Le Bonheur easier for you and your family.
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Massage on the GO - Do You Know Educational Series
Massage on the Go is a massage service that offers both chair and table massages to adult caregivers and family members of patients at St. Jude.
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Measuring intake and output for inpatients - Do You Know Educational Series
As part of treatment, your child will receive medicines that might affect the way his kidneys or bladder work. For this reason, the staff needs a record of your child's fluid balance.
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Medicine Room - Do You Know Educational Series
The Medicine Room is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays. Patients receive chemotherapy (cancer-fighting drugs), blood products, and other medicines and treatments in this area on an outpatient basis.
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Outpatient cell phone paging - Do You Know Educational Series
One of the most common experiences for St. Jude outpatients and their family members is being called to appointments and to the clinic for information, such as picking up schedules. To decrease overhead paging and provide families with more freedom and privacy, staff members will call parents on their personal cell phones (if they have them and want to use them for this purpose).
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Outpatient Fast Facts - Do You Know Educational Series
This information sheet has tips for when your child is treated at St. Jude, but does not stay in the hospital overnight.
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Photographing, videotaping, and audiotaping - Do You Know Educational Series
To protect the health, safety and privacy of you, your child and all St. Jude patients, please follow the hospital's guidelines for photographing, videotaping, or audiotaping by patients and family members.
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Rapid Response Team (RRT) - Do You Know Educational Series
If you think something isn’t right with your child, please talk to a doctor or nurse about it. If you think another medical professional needs to examine your child and suggest a course of action, you might need to call the Rapid Response Team (RRT).
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Service Animal Guidelines
St. Jude is committed to meeting the needs of people who require help from a service animal. If you or your child uses a service animal, the Americans with Disabilities Act protects your rights.
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Visiting Guidelines - Do You Know Educational Series
Visiting guidelines to protect the health and safety of your child and all St. Jude patients.
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When the primary clinics are closed - Do You Know Educational Series
All of the clinics are closed on weekends, holidays, and after 5 p.m. on weekdays. When patients need care during those times, staff members are ready to help.
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Who to call? When to phone? - Do You Know Educational Series
Information to help you quickly reach a member of your child's medical team. Who to call? When to phone?
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Who to call? When to phone? IDS - Do You Know Educational Series
Telephone numbers for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Infectious Diseases Clinic in the Kmart St. Jude Life Center.
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Why St. Jude needs legal papers for medical care - Do You Know Educational Series
St. Jude staff must ensure that the parent, guardian, or other legal representative consents to the child’s medical care and treatment. Legal papers determine and show who is legally allowed to consent.
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You and the Affordable Care Act - Do You Know Educational Series
The insurance requirements of the health reform law, also called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, took effect January 1, 2014. If you currently do not have health insurance or if you might lose your health insurance, it is important to learn about this law now.