This cancer care course is designed for health professionals with a recordable qualification who work directly or indirectly with patients with a cancer diagnosis. This is a text-based, distance learning course supported via e-learning.
Essential Info
This cancer care nursing course will build on your knowledge and understanding of cancer care, developing skills that will aid in pursuing a career within cancer care nursing. It is a modular course, delivered on a flexible, distance learning basis. A new innovation this year is the introduction of online clinical forums, where you can discuss course and practice-related issues with clinical experts from a range of oncology and palliative care settings.
This course was approved by the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) in 2007 and awarded EONS Excellence in Education Award 2008. You can obtain a BSc Cancer Care after completing three core modules: The Nature of Cancer, the Impact of Cancer and Using Research within Cancer Care. You will achieve a BSc (Hons) Cancer Care after successful completion of a further one or two optional modules and a practice-orientated project.
What You Will Study
You will study the following modules:
Practice Based Dissertation
The intention of this module is to develop and enhance students’ professional practice relating to their sphere of work. This will enable the student to apply critical and analytical approaches to the application of theoretical knowledge relevant to their own area of practice.
The Nature of Cancer
The aim of this module is to enable healthcare professionals to understand the nature of cancer from an epidemiological and biological perspective. By the end of the module the students will be able to discuss the incidence of cancer both within the UK and Europe. Students will also possess the skills to articulate the biological nature of cancer and also its current treatments as well as contemporary lines of research with regards to future treatments.
The Impact of Cancer
The aim of this module is to enable healthcare professionals to appreciate the impact of cancer, initially in relation to morbidity and mortality rates. This will then form the basis to explore various strategic framework documents. The psychosocial impact of cancer will then be explored from the perspective of the patient using patient narratives as a tool to develop understanding and insight into the private and public world of the cancer patient.
Care of the Person Receiving Chemotherapy
The overall aim of this module is to enable nurses to plan and deliver appropriate nursing interventions which are clinically effective and evidence based, taking into account current trends and innovations in chemotherapeutic interventions available for cancer.
Therapeutic Management of Cancer
This module is designed to enable the health care professional with the knowledge to plan an effective level of care in relation to the challenging symptoms cancer patients may present with. Symptoms such as pain, nausea and vomiting, anxiety, depression, agitation will be explored and appropriate interventions critically discussed.
Nature and Scope of Palliative Care
To critically analyse the nature and scope of palliative care in relation to life limiting illnesses. The module will explore professional issues, communication issues and clinical issues pertaining to palliative care via a case study and patient narrative approach.
Using Research within Cancer Care
The purpose of this module is to help healthcare professionals bridge the gap that can exist between research and practice. The aim is to enable the student to become research-aware so that they know where and how to find research literature to promote a clear understanding of the research process. By the end of the module they should reach a point where they can make an informed decision about whether particular research studies could influence their own day-to-day practice and that of their colleagues. The module is also concerned with research utilisation, the process of actually developing practice so that it becomes more knowledge led.
How You Will Study
This is a text-based, distance learning course supported via e-learning. You will receive course material at the start of each module and get feedback from various study activities. You will be supported by regular contact with your module manager through e-mail, phone, teleconferencing and videoconferencing technologies.
Additional Information
Facilities
Our state of the art Glamorgan clinical simulation centre is set up to replicate an acute care NHS environment, providing realistic clinical facilities for our Nursing and Midwifery students and qualified healthcare professionals.
