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This course provides foundational knowledge on the basic principles of cancer and the evaluation and diagnosis of cancer for the advanced practice provider.
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is foundational to nursing and can improve patient outcomes. It uses a process of shared decision-making that incorporates the best available evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences and values. Nurses and other healthcare providers at the point of care are in an ideal position to ask and answer clinically relevant questions to promote quality, safety, and best-possible outcomes.
Cancer care across the healthcare continuum has been revolutionized by advances in the understanding and application of genomics. The paradigm shift to biomarker-driven treatment decisions is a large step toward achieving precision oncology, which is the use of tumor-specific information, like genomic information, to inform cancer care.