General questions to ask

These questions are some of the many you may want to ask during the initial consultation. Please feel free to ask us anything about your child’s care – it’s our job to make sure you have all questions answered.

About your health care team

• Who should I call if I have questions before transplant?
• Who is my child’s primary stem cell doctor?
• How will other stem cell doctors be involved in my child’s care?
• Who are my child’s advance practice nurses (APNs)?
• What role do APNs play in my child’s care?
• Who is our social worker, and what role does he/she play?
• Who else may see my child see during treatment and what do they do?
    o Pain management
    o Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
    o Palliative care 
• What other specially trained professionals may be part of my child’s health care team and what do they do?
    o Chaplain and spiritual care
    o Child life specialists and creative arts therapists 
    o ParentWISE 
    o Educational services 
    o Interpreting services

About housing, school, and post-transplant living

• How do we decide where my child will live during/after transplant?
• What is Kohl’s House?
• How do we decide when my child will return to school?
• What are some adjustments we may face after we return home?
    

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