39273 - Oncology and Palliative Care

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/06
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student has  knowledge, within his competence, related to palliative care; he has also acquired specific skills in clinical, cellular and molecular oncology and in its diagnostic applications.

Course contents

The course aims to provide students with knowledge of: 1. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ONCOLOGY 1.Epidemiology ● 2.Molecular biology ● 3.Diagnostic-clinical approach to the oncological patient ● 4.Prevention ● 5.Oncological therapeutic strategy ● 6.Assessment of response in oncology ● 7.Toxicity and management ● 8.Research 2. PRINCIPLES OF PALLIATIVE CARE Palliative hospital and home care. Supportive therapies. Concurrent palliative care. Pain therapy. Palliative sedation. Advance treatment provisions

Readings/Bibliography

Lectures and power point slides

Teaching methods

Frontal lesson seeking interaction with students as much as possible

Assessment methods

Multiple-choice quiz as part of the exam module

Teaching tools

Power point