Chemo treatment room

I'm finding myself talking to people and saying about "the patient in the other chair." so, here is some backround on the set up of the chemo area at YGBOC.

There are 12 chemo (reclining) chairs with  a companion chair beside it. Chair one sits and faces chair 2 (slightly angled facing out toward the nurses station on the opposite wall). Chair 2 and chair 3 have their backs together. Chair 3 and 4 face each other and so on down the line.  There is enough room between 1 and 2 for 2 IV pumps and a blood pressure machine. The chairs are also lined up against the outside wall which is all windows allowing you to watch the birdfeeders and the squirrels that are fat enough to look like groundhogs!  There are also two treatment rooms on one end allowing someone who needs to be alone to be in one of those rooms. Or when there are too many patients for those 12 chairs.  At the other end of the room, there is a small lounge with 2 chairs (also called into service on a very busy day) a dorm size refrigerator, a coffee pot with always fresh coffee and  a hot water spigot and a basket of snacks. There is also a shelf with different cans of soup if you want some of that for lunch while you are there. The wall opposite the chairs is the nurses station. Each nurse has her own "area" and computer on a long desk (runs the entire length of the room) looking out at the patients.

There are probably about 6 or 8 nurses back in the chemo area. Your nurse comes out to the waiting room to get you and takes you back, gets you started for the day and is your primary nurse. BUT, they all work so well together. If your machine beeps that it is time for the next drug or time to flush in between, who ever gets there first usually takes care of the "problem."

There is an art director that is in and out too. He does a lot of visiting with patients but also provides some activities depending on the day.  There is always at least one volunteer there walking around with the basket of snacks, asking if you would like something to eat,or if you need anything.

The set up is very nice and the people are wonderful.