learning Objectives - Describe the management of patients with oncology
Hours - 15
Teaching and Learning Activities - Lecture cum discussion Explain using charts, graphs models, films, and slides Case discussion Seminar Drug book Lecture cum discussion Topic presentation Posting to cancer Hospital/ unit Structured discussion Seminar
Assessment Methods - Short answers Objective type Essay type Assessment of skills with check list
Content of the chapter
a) Nursing management of patients with
oncological conditions
– Structure & characteristics of normal &
cancer cells
– Nursing Assessment-History and Physical
assessment
– Prevention, Screening, Early detection,
Warning signs of cancer
– Epidemiology, Etiology, Classification,
Pathopysiology, staging, clinical
manifestations, diagnosis, treatment
modalities and medical & surgical nursing
management of oncological conditions
– Common malignanacies of various body
systems: Oral, larynx, lung, stomach and
Colon, Liver, Leukemias and lymphomas,
Breast, Cervix, Ovary, uterus, Sarcoma,
Brain, Renal, Bladder, Prostate etc
b) Oncological emergiences
c) Modalities of treatment
– Immunotherapy
– Radiotherapy
– Surgical Interventions
– Stem cell and Bonemarrow transplants
– Gene therapy
– Other forms of treatment
d) Psychosocial aspects of cancer
e) Rehabilitation
f) Palliative care: symptom and pain
management, Nutritional support
g) Home care
h) Hospice care
i) Stomal Therapy
j) Special therapies
k) Psycho social aspects
l) Nursing procedures
m) Alternate therapies
n) Drugs used in treatment of oncological
disorders