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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.
Moral distress occurs when conflicting values and views violate a healthcare provider’s integrity. Although clinicians can confront and respond to individual ethical conflicts, moral distress persists when they cannot identify a course of action that maintains their ethical values. Review this huddle card in a group or individually to learn more about moral resilience and how you and your colleagues can cultivate a resilient practice.
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.
This resource covers how targeted therapy works to inhibit the action of certain proteins, molecules, and enzymes to grow cancer cells. This type of therapy can be used in combination with other therapies. There are different types of targeted therapies, and each has benefits and limitations as part of a treatment plan.
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.
Safe delivery of high-risk anticancer medications requires coordination among all members of the care team. Review this card to understand the important checkpoints for pre-treatment verification that promote safe administration of anticancer therapies.
Revisit the oncologic emergency, hypercalcemia of malignancy, including risk factors, manifestations, assessment, treatment, and nursing interventions.
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.