Oncology Nursing CEU Courses

Healthcare professionals need to be aware of the clinical features of hyperthyroidism and evidence-based clinical management guidelines to best care for their patients with this condition.

Thyroid diseases range from subtle to severe, depending on the type and stage of the disease. Healthcare professionals across disciplines must rely on both clinical and laboratory findings to diagnose and treat the patient effectively.

Nurse.com is pleased to present the ELNEC Pediatric Curriculum End-of-Life-Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC).

ELNEC is a national education initiative to improve palliative care. Developed by 20 pediatric palliative care experts, ELNEC Pediatric Curriculum teaches perinatal and neonatal palliative skills to nurses and healthcare professionals in the acute setting.

Accreditation standards mandate the evaluation of patients’ understanding of the teaching they receive during encounters with healthcare providers. More importantly, knowing whether your patient truly understands and can act on what you have taught them is key to their successful self-management of health-related conditions. This course provides the definition of teach-back and guidance for incorporating this educational method into your daily care of patients and their families.

Lung cancer kills more women than breast, ovarian, and uterine cancer combined, but is rarely perceived as a women’s health issue. While it would be simple to attribute the rising numbers to increases in smoking among younger women, increasing numbers of women who have never smoked are diagnosed with lung cancer. Emerging evidence now suggests genetics, biology, and hormones may contribute to women's increased incidence of lung cancer.
 
Nurses and other healthcare professionals are responsible for increasing awareness of risk factors and prevention strategies to address the rise in lung cancer among women. You should aggressively promote smoking cessation, encourage screening for patients identified as high risk, and advocate for additional funding for lung cancer research.

Nurses are taught from the beginning of their careers to anticipate and prepare for anything that comes their way, including adverse drug events (ADEs). These common events cause thousands of injuries and deaths each year in the U.S. Nurses play a significant role in recognizing, documenting, and preventing these events.

Cigarette smoking has declined, but tobacco alternatives like electronic cigarettes have gained popularity among adolescents. The use of tobacco in any form has severe health implications during the adolescent development because they are more susceptible to addiction, making them prone to becoming lifelong users of tobacco. Although healthcare providers are uniquely positioned to ask about tobacco use and provide evidence-based treatments, it is not consistently performed at each visit. This course will review how adolescents are more susceptible to the marketing of tobacco products, and the health consequences of nicotine addiction, and will provide techniques for encouraging a tobacco-free lifestyle.

Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the U.S. behind heart disease (Siegel et al., 2022). The exact number of new cancer diagnoses is unknown for several reasons, including incomplete cancer registration data for some states and a lag in available statistics, but the American Cancer Society (ACS) projected that more than 1,918,030 new cancer cases would occur in the U.S. in 2022 (Siegel et al., 2022). According to the ACS, about 609,360 patients will die from cancer in the U.S. in 2022 (Siegel et al., 2022). The National Cancer Institute (NCI) reports the most common cancers were breast, lung and bronchus, prostate, and colorectal cancers (NCI, 2020). The rates of mortality for common cancer types showed a decline between 2015 and 2019 (NCI, 2021a). About 80% of cancers diagnosed in the U.S. occur in patients over the age of 55 (American Cancer Society, 2022c).

Most bladder cancers occur in people older than 55 years, with 73 being the average age of diagnosis. During the past 20 years, the incidence of bladder cancer (BC) has declined, but men continue to be 3 to 4 times more likely to develop bladder cancer than women. Incidence of BC is diagnosed more often in White people than in Black people or Hispanic Americans (American Cancer Society, 2022).