Cancer Patient’s Nursing (2 cr)
Code: TH00BW44-3001
General information
Enrollment
02.07.2022 - 22.08.2022
Timing
29.08.2022 - 02.10.2022
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Campus
Kupittaa Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing
Teachers
- Isa Öhberg
Groups
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PTERTK21
Objective
The study unit will be carried out in English.
Objectives
Students will
• Understand cancer as a disease and identify the factors related to early diagnosis and prevention of cancer
• Students will know different methods of treating and monitoring cancer how common types of cancer are diagnosed
• Students will know how to provide cancer patients with symptomatic and humane nursing services
• Students will know how to perform safe pharmacotherapy and how to pay attention to their personal occupational safety
• Students will know how to support and guide the functional capacity, well-being and quality of life of cancer patients and how to work with customers and their family members as a member of a multiprofessional team
Content
Contents
• Factors affecting the pathogenesis of cancer and the epidemiology of cancer
• Development of cancer
• Common types of cancer and how to diagnose them
• Cancer prevention and treatment
• Nutrition of cancer patients
• Symptomatic treatment of cancer patients (medicated and unmedicated)
• Cancer, partners and sexuality
• Lifestyles as a means of supporting recovery from cancer
• Rehabilitation and monitoring of cancer patients
• Psychosocial support of cancer patients
• Safe cytostatic therapy and occupational safety, infusion port
• Pain medication and the use of an automatic dosing pump
Evaluation scale
H-5