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Prepare for your OCN® certification exam with the OCN® Certification Review Bundle. This series of four online courses offers nurses already proficient in oncology care a comprehensive review of the cancer journey from top to bottom. You’ll receive content specifically created to fulfill your needs as an RN and will finish the series with a clear evaluation of your knowledge base.
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.
Explore how different therapies and modalities used in cancer treatment can be combined in various sequences to achieve the optimal treatment outcome. This card provides the terms used to offer context for where a therapy is positioned in the sequence of treatment modalities and to describe the intent of the intervention.
Gain knowledge of how surgery can be used as part of a patient’s cancer treatment plan. Surgical procedures can be used throughout the continuum of care. This huddle card covers the various roles surgery can play in the overall treatment plan.
Financial toxicity is the adverse economic consequences and distress resulting from the costs of medical treatment. Review this huddle card to learn about how financial toxicity affects patients with cancer and their care, as well as risk factors for financial toxicity and nursing considerations to address it.
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.
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.
Enhance your knowledge on hormone therapies in this quick easy to use resource. This is a targeted therapy that involves manipulating hormone levels to treat cancer. This huddle card details how hormone therapies work, the medications included in this category and the benefits to patients with cancer.
Climate change amplifies exposure to known carcinogens, leading to increased cases of cancer and other diseases. This huddle card reviews climate change and environmental health, including the effect of climate change on patients with cancer and how nurses can be advocates at local and national levels.
Enhance your knowledge of cytokine release syndrome and how it can affect patients with cancer. The incidence of CRS happening depends on the type of cancer therapy and diagnosis. You will learn about the risk factors, clinical manifestations, diagnosis assessment, emergency interventions and nursing considerations