1. Cancer Therapy Overview

Only available as part of a package

Outline:

  • Introduction and Background
  • Risk-Inducing Factors for Medical Therapy Errors
  • Response and Toxicity Assessment
  • Guidelines and Standards for Safe Prescribing and Administration of Cancer Chemotherapy

After completing this educational activity, participants should be able to:

  • Identify patient, pharmacologic, and care delivery factors that make cancer therapy a high-risk process
  • Describe unique timing intervals for administration of cancer therapies
  • Explain standard disease-specific processes to monitor cancer therapy response
  • Describe standard organizational policies and practices that ensure safe cancer therapy prescribing and administration

Lynn Adams

DNP, ANP-BC, AOCNP®

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dr. Adams is an APP manager at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Long Island Regional Network sites. A former president of the Oncology Nursing Society (Suffolk County chapter), Lynn is a past winner of the Samuel and May Rudin Award for Excellence in Advanced Nursing Practice at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She has authored or co-authored 9 articles and presented more than 40 times since starting her career as a clinical nurse in 1982.

Dr. Adams has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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Introduction and Background (6 min.)
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Introduction and Background - Knowledge Check
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Risk-Inducing Factors for Medical Therapy Errors (12 min.)
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Risk-Inducing Factors for Medical Therapy Errors - Knowledge Check
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Response and Toxicity Assessment (3 min.)
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Response and Toxicity Assessment - Knowledge Check
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Treatment Regimens and Resources (12 min.)
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Treatment Regimens and Resources - Knowledge Check
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Clinical Pearls (5 min.)
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Cancer Therapy Overview - Post Test
4 Questions  |  3 attempts  |  3/4 points to pass
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