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VNSNY Hospice Oncology Specialty Program Education Presentation
Improve nurses and social workers ability to work with complex terminal cancer patients and their families
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- Approved CE's?
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- Please Enter Your License Number *
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- The overall quality of the training I received was high.
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- This training will be beneficial to me in the performance of my job.
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- Instructor Effectiveness:
Dana Tarcatu, MD
Instructor’s style of presentation was conducive to learning.
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- Instructor Effectiveness:
Jennifer Clarke,, NP
Instructor’s style of presentation was conducive to learning.
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- The presentation covered the material I expected:
1. Identify the aim of the Hospice Oncology Program and the profile of hospice oncology program patients
2. Describe the complex needs of the terminal cancer patient and his/her family
3. Describe cancer basics: behavior, disease trajectory at end of life, treatments, residual side effects of treatments
4. Identify psychosocial and spiritual needs and interventions: adjustment disorders, anxiety, depression, existential distress, desire to hasten death
5. Identify oncologic emergencies: spinal cord compression, superior vena cava syndrome, hypercalcemia, increased intracranial pressure, seizures, bleeding, terminal hemorrhage, malignant bowel obstruction
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- Did this course increase your knowledge of subject matter? Tell us how by listing three specific items or areas of content knowledge you learned in this course today.
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- Do you feel this course has been adequate in providing you with the knowledge and skills to employ these strategies with your home care patients?
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- Please add any additional comments or suggestions here.
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- Please indicate Subjects of Interest for future conferences/ courses at VNSNY Hospice
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