Content
- Lectures: 23 hours
- Exercises 7 hours
- Independent work: 60 hours
Subject carrier
Description
1. Carcinogenesis
2. Cancer epidemiology
3. Cancer prevention and genetic counselling
4. The nurse’s role in cancer screening: health education, screening, genetic counselling
5. Diagnostic methods in oncology
6. Preclinical and clinical research in oncology
7. Basic principles of clinical oncology – treatment (oncological surgery, radiotherapy, medical oncology)
8. Most common cancers by site: breast, skin, lung, colon, prostate, testis….
9. Nursing care of the surgical oncology patient
10. Nursing care of the patient undergoing radiation therapy
11. Nursing care of a patient undergoing systemic therapy:
a. Nursing care of a patient undergoing treatment with cytostatics
b. Nursing care of a patient treated with biologic agents
c. Nursing care of a patient being treated with hormonal agents
12. Extravasation and local complications of systemic intravenous therapy
13. Subcutaneous venous valve
14. Safe handling in oncology (with cytostatics, isotopes, secretions, etc.)
15. Emergency conditions in oncology
16. Comprehensive rehabilitation of the cancer patient, including:
a. Nutrition of the cancer patient
b. Palliative care for the cancer patient
c. Supportive care for the cancer patient
d. Pain in the cancer patient
