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Advanced studies in cancer patient's care (5 cr)

Code: TH00CY40-3001

General information


Enrollment

02.12.2024 - 21.04.2025

Timing

21.04.2025 - 25.05.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Nursing

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Isa Öhberg
  • Johanna Kero

Groups

  • MSAISS22
  • PSHSK23A
  • PSHTK23A
  • PSHTK23B
  • MSHTK23A
  • MSHTK22A
  • PSHTK22A
  • PSHTK22B
  • PSHTS22B
  • PSHTS22V
  • PSHSS22A
  • PSHTS22A
  • PSHSK22A
  • 24.04.2025 15:00 - 18:00, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyön syventävät opinnot TH00CY40-3001
  • 28.04.2025 15:00 - 18:00, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyön syventävät opinnot TH00CY40-3001
  • 30.04.2025 15:00 - 18:00, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyön syventävät opinnot TH00CY40-3001
  • 05.05.2025 15:00 - 18:00, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyön syventävät opinnot TH00CY40-3001
  • 07.05.2025 15:00 - 18:00, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyön syventävät opinnot TH00CY40-3001
  • 12.05.2025 15:00 - 18:00, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyön syventävät opinnot TH00CY40-3001
  • 14.05.2025 15:00 - 18:00, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyön syventävät opinnot TH00CY40-3001
  • 19.05.2025 15:00 - 18:00, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyön syventävät opinnot TH00CY40-3001
  • 21.05.2025 15:00 - 18:00, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyön syventävät opinnot TH00CY40-3001

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

Evaluation scale

H-5