Oncology Nursing: A Comprehensive Review - 30 Contact Hours

Course overview

Cancer affects everyone - the recipient of the diagnosis, the caregivers, and the concerned and frightened friends and loved ones. However, patients remain the focus of nursing care. This comprehensive course covers many complexities of state-of-the-art cancer care. Cancer has in some ways become a chronic illness, with many phases, signposts, and trajectories. Survivorship care is an integral part of cancer care. It begins at diagnosis and continues through long-term follow-up care, with a focus on disease surveillance and quality-of-life issues. Precision medicine is a growing field of cancer therapy that aims to deliver individualized treatments tailored against specific molecular or genetic alterations that promote the development of cancer. The information provided in this course has been mapped to the Oncology Nurses Certification examination and is appropriate for nurses caring for patients with cancer in any setting. The purpose of the course is to empower nurses to optimize patient outcomes by incorporating into their practice a solid foundation in their approach to care of patients with cancer. Further specialization in the many aspects of oncology nursing care can follow this overview. The course consists of 30 self-paced video lessons as well as resource materials and references. The course content has been reviewed by the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC) and is acceptable for up to 30 recertification points.