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Cancer Patients in General Health Care (NURS90107)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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Semester 2
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This subject considers issues of importance for health professionals who deliver care to cancer patients in general health care settings. Addressing issues across the disease trajectory including screening, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship (after treatment care), recurrence and palliative care, this subject will provide information necessary to provide safe and effective care to a growing population of people who are living with cancer. The content will include development of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation skills in the care of cancer patients in general health care settings. Essential concepts to be covered include health promotion and surveillance; utilisation of chronic care plans; side-effect and symptom recognition and management; cancer treatment modalities including novel treatments; early identification of cancer related problems requiring emergency interventions, survivorship and palliative care issues. Students will engage in problem solving activities and where relevant clinical simulation to apply these concepts to assessment and management of patients being treated for cancer in general health care settings. Students will be challenged to think beyond the physical aspects of medical interventions to consider the essential importance of communication and cancer patient experience (psychosocial, ethical and legal).
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject students will demonstrate theoretical and technical knowledge of identification and management of issues impacting cancer patients in general health care settings to ensure optimal patient outcomes by:
- Integrating the theoretical and technical content covered within the subject to develop essential knowledge of cancer biology and cancer treatment mechanisms;
- Applying knowledge and skills to recognise, prioritise, plan and deliver nursing interventions to cancer patients who present to general health care settings such as Emergency Departments or community settings
- Demonstrate capacity to use theoretical knowledge and technical skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, rational inquiry and self-directed learning to plan care with people affected by cancer in general health care settings.
Generic skills
On completion of the subject students should have developed the following generic skills of the Melbourne graduate and postgraduate coursework student:
- Capacity to manage competing demands on time, including self-directed work.
- Problem-solving and analytical skills including engaging with and responding to unfamiliar problems and ability to identifying relevant strategies.
- A capacity to articulate their knowledge and understanding in written modes of communication;
- An ability to evaluate and synthesize the research and professional literature in this discipline.
Last updated: 3 November 2022