Key Features
Uses service user voices
Part time
Delivered by experienced healthcare professionals
Designed for practitioners
Course Overview
This course is designed for health and care professionals such as nurses, paramedics, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and radiographers.
Cancer is an umbrella diagnosis for many diseases caused by cellular change and involving a variety of causative factors, affecting as many as one-in-two people at some point in their lives. This course explores how cancer affects people and their families from a range of perspectives, allowing health and care professionals to increase collaboration and integrated team working.
How You Study
This course takes a blended learning approach. Key concepts will be introduced using seminars and recorded presentations with directed reading supporting access to national policy drivers.
There will also be interactive sessions which will allow for the exchange of ideas and debate over effective multi-disciplinary approaches in supporting people with cancer and their families.
Learning on this course is also supported through the University's Virtual Learning Environment. Additionally, service user voices will be included in learning materials through the use of national repositories, experts by experience, and the University of Lincoln Human Library.
On this course you can expect to cover:
- Aetiology and epidemiology of cancers
- Prevention and detection
- Diagnostic pathways
- Staging of disease
- Treatment modalities
- Acute oncology emergencies
- Holistic needs assessment
- Symptom management including pain management
- Complementary treatments
- Managing concurrent healthcare problems
- Supporting families affected by cancer
- Collaborative working and Care navigation
- Integrated service provision and planning
- ReSPECT and DNACPR decision making
How you are assessed
The assessment for this module is a poster presentation. You will design an evidence-informed poster on an area of cancer care relevant to your practice and present it to the cohort .
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From short courses and microcredentials, to professional development modules and fully online Master’s degrees, we offer a range of flexible programmes to suit your individual needs. Our suite of programmes uses a variety of delivery methods, including online-only, face-to-face, blended, and distance-learning approaches.
