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Revisit the oncologic emergency, hypercalcemia of malignancy, including risk factors, manifestations, assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions.
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.
Loss of fertility is a potential late effect of cancer treatment and can be a source of substantial emotional distress for young patients hoping to start or grow their family. View this huddle card to review treatment risk factors for infertility, preservation options, and nursing considerations.
Antineoplastic drugs, commonly known as chemotherapy, cytotoxic and oncology drugs are used to treat cancer and non-cancer medical conditions. Before starting this kind of treatment, a thorough assessment of the patient is done to help prevent errors and minimize risk for complications and applies to all routes and classes of antineoplastic administration. This ONS Huddle Card™ covers the Pre- Administration Verification, an Administration Checklist and Post-Administration Considerations.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.