Pediatric Cancer Care Models

A review

The lecture duration is 19min.

0.5 CPD Points, 0.5 CEUs, 0.5 CME credits approval pending.
Accredited by CPDUK, CBRN and Provider Pending.

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Richard Ramos
Foundation/Endowment Committee Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA
Lecture Summary

Cancer care of patients is often misunderstood from clinical paradigms as it bears on human development. Children are thought of as small adults, and when adult nursing care models are overlayed on pediatric populations they fail, sometimes catastrophically. This presentation highlights the differences between caring for children with cancer and why they differ so radically from adults.

Target Audience

Oncology nurses
Trainee oncology doctors
General practitioners

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:

  • Provide the participant with a rudimentary understanding of the differences between child cancers and adult cancers
  • Provide an overview of the acute nature and sometimes emergent nature of childhood cancer in contrast to that of adults
  • Illustrate the precipitating factors (i.e., diagnoses) that demand inpatient care for the child with cancer

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