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Review this radiation therapy card in a group or individually to refresh your knowledge on this treatment modality. We include examples, benefits, limitations, and targets of this therapy.
Individually or within a group, review this card about the basic principles of cancer staging. This process is critical for treatment planning, eligibility for clinical trials, and treatment response.
This card explores how cancer and cancer treatments can affect a person’s sexuality and intimate relationships. Sexual expression and desire do not take a break because of a cancer diagnosis or cancer treatments. This card covers symptoms related to cancer that affect sexuality, nursing considerations when caring for a patient experiencing these issues, and barriers to supporting patients’ sexuality.
As many as 15% of patients with cancer experience malignant spinal cord compression throughout the course of their disease. Patients with lung, prostate, or breast cancer or multiple myeloma are at a higher risk for this complication. Learn about the clinical manifestations, emergency interventions, and nursing considerations.
Superior vena cava syndrome affects 3%-4% of patients with cancer involving the chest so patients with a diagnosis of lung cancer or non-Hodgkin lymphoma are at a higher risk. Explore the diagnostic assessments needed, emergency interventions, and clinical manifestations.
Revisit the oncologic emergency, hypercalcemia of malignancy, including risk factors, manifestations, assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions.
This huddle card is a refresher on the oncologic emergency cardiac tamponade. This card includes information on risk factors, manifestations, assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions for cardiac tamponade.
Individually or within a group, review this card on the basic principles of tumor grading, including the process for grading and how it is used in combination with other factors to determine prognosis.
Review this card about sepsis, an oncologic emergency, in a group or individually. Sepsis risk factors and manifestations as well as assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions are described.
Survivorship care plans improve the transition of care from active cancer treatment to surveillance and long-term monitoring. Review this huddle card to understand the nurse’s role in survivorship care and care planning.