Study Guide

Objective

The Student
• understands cancer as a disease and identify factors affecting cancer prevention and early detection
• understands the importance of multi-professional working group considering the holistic treatment of cancer
• is able to use different control methods based on evidence when guiding a cancer patient and his or her loved ones
• is able to work while promoting patient and occupational safety
• develop their own professional skills in teamwork and in different networks, understanding the importance of lifelong learning
• demonstrate initiative in nursing and self-management skills, as well as nursing content management

Content

Contents
• Evidence-based nursing in cancer treatment
• Cancer treatment methods, side effects and symptomatic treatment
• Safe handling of chemotherapy
• Comprehensive support and guidance for cancer patients and their loved ones
• Interaction and encounter
• The ethics of nursing with cancer
• Cancer as a long-term disease, secondary cancers and late-onset side effects of treatments
• The most common on-call situations
• Surviving cancer and cancer recurrence
• Prospects for the future of cancer care