Cancer
Chemotherapy
How
to Take this Course
Course Overview:
The goal of this course is to
familiarize nurses and other health care professionals
with the basic principles of cancer chemotherapy. The
goals of the course are to provide an overview of cancer chemotherapy, to review
commonly occurring side effects of anti-cancer drugs, to outline management
strategies to decrease toxicities and side effects, and to suggest resources
for further learning. Please see Objectives
for a specific list of this course's goals.
Here are a few hints
to help you navigate through the course.
- Click on links in the
Table
of Contents
frame on the left side of the screen. You can view pages consecutively, or
access any page at any time.
- You can contact website
support by clicking on "RnCeus Interactive e-mail"
or return to the
RnCeus Interactive Home Page by clicking on the word "RnCeus.com" in the
top bar above from any page.
- Access the Exam and Evaluation Form at the end of the course. Follow instructions on that page
to obtain nursing contact hours, or to just try the questions. You
can review all course material, submit the exam, and get it graded without
registering or paying any price!
- Links to the World Wide
Web enrich the course content. Review the different sites and then click "BACK"
on your browser to return to the course. Or "BOOKMARK" or
"ADD FAVORITES" for easy reference!
- Scattered throughout
the course are Instant
Feedback areas,
like the one below. Review information about the Target
Audience and give it a try!
Instant
Feedback: To
reinforce the material, quiz yourself on what you have learned while studying
this information. Wherever you see this green color text, "instant feedback"
questions are available.
For example:
The
target audience for this course are nurses and other healthcare professionals
who wish to learn how to administer cytotoxic drugs to cancer patients.