Nursing Cancer Patients (1 cr)
Code: TH00CJ52-3003
General information
Enrollment
02.12.2024 - 09.03.2025
Timing
03.03.2025 - 06.04.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
1 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Emergency Care, Public Health Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Midwifery
Teachers
- Reino Tissari
Groups
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PKATIS24
- 03.03.2025 12:00 - 15:00, Kurssin aloitus, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyö TH00CJ52-3003
- 10.03.2025 09:00 - 11:00, Käytännön harjoituksia, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyö TH00CJ52-3003
- 21.03.2025 08:00 - 09:00, Tentti, Syöpäpotilaan hoitotyö TH00CJ52-3003
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