Nursing Cancer Patients (1 cr)
Code: TH00CJ52-3002
General information
Enrollment
19.02.2024 - 26.02.2024
Timing
26.02.2024 - 26.03.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
1 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Health and Well-being
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Anu Nousiainen
Groups
-
PKÄTIS23
- 27.02.2024 14:15 - 15:45, SYHO etä
- 29.02.2024 08:15 - 09:45, SYHO etä
- 14.03.2024 08:15 - 11:30, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyö TH00CJ52-3002
Objective
The student:
• Understands cancer as a disease and identifies factors affecting cancer prevention and early detection
• Can diagnose the most common cancers, and knows the most common forms of treatment and follow-up methods for cancer
• Students can 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
• Nutrition of cancer patients
• Symptomatic treatment of cancer patients (medicated and unmedicated)
• Cancer, partners and sexuality
• Rehabilitation and monitoring of cancer patients
• Psychosocial support of cancer patients
• Safe cytostatic therapy and occupational safety, infusion port
• Pain medication and how to use an automatic dosing pump
Evaluation scale
H-5