Main description:

Are you unsure about your cancer and palliative care placement? Do you need guidance on what to prepare to get the most out of your practice learning? Will you have the range of clinical skills to care for people with cancer? What learning opportunities will there be to meet your competencies? How can you maximise your learning during this placement?

This book will help you with all these concerns. It will advise you on what to expect from the placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how to make the most of your learning opportunities and meet your competencies.

Takes a logical, step-by-step approach to preparing for learning on a cancer and palliative care placement
Provides the principles of care, treatment and management of someone with a cancer diagnosis, linking university-learned theory to clinical practice
Gives helpful evidence-based practice examples and resources to support placement learning
Identifies clinical skills that underpin care of an individual with cancer
Highlights potential learning opportunities and experiences available on a cancer and palliative care placement
Explains how to develop your clinical portfolio by completing specific exercises and activities
Maps all activities and exercises to the NMC competencies
Advises on approaches to a range of situations that may arise as a student nurse
Adopts a case-study approach to consolidating learning and to explore the patient pathway from pre-diagnosis, through a range of treatment options to living beyond cancer or end-of-life care.

Series features:

A unique guide to getting the most from clinical placements
How to prepare for your placement
What you can expect to learn during a placement
Clear links to, and examples of, achieving NMC competencies
Guidance on what to use as evidence for your portfolio
Case studies that link theory with practice
How to consolidate your experience and learn from the placement
Tips, activities, further reading suggestions and useful websites.

Worried about your next placement? Will you 'fit in'? Will you have the right skills? What do you need to learn to meet practice assessments?

This series will help you with all these concerns. It will tell you what to expect from each placement, what you can learn, how to link theory and practice, and how to make the most of your learning opportunities.

This is the only series specifically for student nurses undertaking specific practice placements, and will give you all the information you need in a user-friendly format. Each book in the series covers a specific area of practice for a typical placement on a pre-registration nursing course.

Titles in this series:

Surgical nursing

Medical nursing

Cancer and palliative care nursing

Mental health nursing

Community care nursing

Older people nursing

Each book also covers:

A unique guide to getting the most from clinical placements
What to expect before a placement
What you can expect to learn on placement
How to consolidate your experience and learning
Clear links and examples with NMC proficiencies
Guidance on what to use as evidence for portfolios
Short case studies to link theory with practice
Key points reminder boxes

Contents:

Introduction

Section 1: Preparation for practice placement experience

Chapter 1 Personal and public perceptions of cancer

Chapter 2 What cancer is

Chapter 3 How the cancer situation can be improved

Chapter 4 How cancer is diagnosed and the impact of diagnosis

Chapter 5 Principles of palliative care nursing

Chapter 6 Beginning the learning experience

Chapter 7 Placement learning pathways

Section 2: Placement learning opportunities

Chapter 8 The rationale for selecting cancer treatment

Chapter 9 Caring for the patient undergoing surgical cancer treatment

Chapter 10 Caring for the patient undergoing cytotoxic therapy

Chapter 11 Caring for the patient undergoing haemopoietic stem cell transplant

Chapter 12 Caring for the patient undergoing of biological therapy

Chapter 13 Caring for the patient undergoing radiotherapy

Chapter 14 Caring for the patient undergoing endocrine therapy

Chapter 15 Managing symptoms: assess, plan, implement and evaluate

Chapter 16 -Caring for patients at the end of life

Chapter 17 Living with and beyond cancer

Section 3: Consolidating learning: the patient experience

Chapter 18 Introduction to consolidating learning

Chapter 19 Introducing the case study

Chapter 20 Receiving a cancer diagnosis

Chapter 21 Receiving treatment

Chapter 22 Advancing disease

Chapter 23 Last days of life

Chapter 24 Living with and beyond cancer

Chapter 25 Transferable skills for future placements

Appendix: Driscoll's model of reflection

Index