Oncology Nursing: Treatment Toxicity, Symptom Burden and the Recognition of Oncologic Emergencies

Course Purpose

4 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Oncology Nursing: Treatment Toxicity, Symptom Burden and the Recognition of Oncologic Emergencies.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 4 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

4 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Oncology Nursing: Treatment Toxicity, Symptom Burden and the Recognition of Oncologic Emergencies.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. State the standard circulating neutrophil count given in the retrieved neutropenia review and explain what neutrophils do.
2. Distinguish primary from secondary neutropenia, and a quantitative from a qualitative neutrophil defect, as the retrieved review defines them.
3. State the two temperature criteria and the neutrophil count that together define neutropenic fever in the retrieved review.
4. Calculate an absolute neutrophil count from a white cell count and a differential using the retrieved formula.
5. State the neutrophil counts that define severe neutropenia and agranulocytosis as retrieved.
6. Explain why the retrieved review describes febrile neutropenia as the most common serious complication of cancer therapy, and what proportion of cases develop an identified infection.
7. Name the four metabolic disturbances that characterise tumour lysis syndrome and the organ consequences the retrieved review attributes to them.
8. Identify which malignancies the retrieved review places at high risk of tumour lysis syndrome, and state what the three risk levels mean numerically.
9. State when the retrieved review says tumour lysis syndrome typically arises and that it can also occur without treatment.
10. Describe oral mucositis as the retrieved review defines it, including its reported incidence and the reported five-to-fourteen-day window.
11. Explain the two ways the retrieved review says mucositis changes the treatment plan itself.
12. State what the retrieved antiemetic review says about the number and variety of pathways that can produce nausea.
13. List the reported presenting signs of superior vena cava syndrome and explain why the retrieved review describes its onset as insidious.
14. State the malignancies most commonly associated with superior vena cava syndrome and the reported share of cases now attributed to benign causes.
15. Name the atraumatic causes of spinal cord compression the retrieved review lists, and state the reported proportion of patients in whom metastatic cord compression develops.
16. State the reported normal serum calcium range, the reported distribution of bound, ionised and anion-bound calcium, and why albumin and pH change the interpretation.
17. Explain what an immune-related adverse event is, name the four the retrieved report addresses, and state what it says about the quality of the underlying evidence.
18. State what the retrieved chronic pain review says about the limitations of pain scales and what it recommends assessing alongside them.
19. State the toxic effects of opioids the retrieved review names and the reversal agent it identifies.
20. State how the retrieved palliative care review characterises palliative care, what early use has been correlated with, and why it is not an alternative to failed life-prolonging treatment.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Oncology Nursing: Treatment Toxicity, Symptom Burden and the Recognition of Oncologic Emergencies.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   What Oncology Nursing Watches For: Expected Toxicity, Emergency and the Difference Between Them

4. 4

   The Neutrophil Count: What It Is, How It Is Derived and What Its Levels Are Called

5. 5

   Febrile Neutropenia: Why a Single Temperature Becomes an Emergency

6. 6

   Tumour Lysis Syndrome: When Treatment Works Too Fast

7. 7

   Mucositis and Nausea: Symptom Burden That Changes the Treatment Itself

8. 8

   Three Oncologic Emergencies Whose First Signs Are Ordinary Complaints

9. 9

   Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Toxicity in Any Organ, on Nobody's Timetable

10. 10

    Pain, Opioid Safety, Palliative Care and the Handovers That Hold It Together

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

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