Instructional Method: Lecture

Introduction:

My passion is critical care oncology nursing. I began my nursing career as a stem cell transplant and cellular therapy (SCTCT) nurse on an inpatient unit in a comprehensive cancer center in the USA that performs over 600 tranplants yearly. We performed autogolous, allogenic, cord-blood, and messenchymal cell transplants. My next venture was critical care nursing in a comprehensive cancer center in the USA. In order to adequately and competently provide care for critical care patients in an oncology specific hospital setting, oncology nursing must be throughtly understood.

Instructional Method: Lecture

Lecture is needed when introducing new knowledge that must be used as a foundation to building futher understand. Most initial licensure nursing programs incorporate lecture and clinical components to their nursing courses. Knowledge must be processed internally, and then applied externally to specific client populations and situations. However, lecture does not have to be boring! I found the following websites helpful in planing a lecture while incorporating technological applications for interest:

The Rale Repository

The Rale Repository includs audio files of specific lung sounds that would be helpful in incorporating into a nursing pulmonary lecture or health assessment course.

Med Puzzles

MedPuzzles.com provides puzzles specific to healthcare professionals about all body systems. Puzzles incorporate an attention-getting nature into lectures. A puzzle could be included at the start of lecture to spike students' interests or at the conclusion to assertain if the teaching objectives were met.

How to Lecture with Powerpoint

Gone is the day of using an overhead projector and transparencies to lecture. Now, most lectures take place with the aide of a power point presentation. A business professor shares information via a Youtube video about effective Powerpoint lecturing.

Randy Pausch Last Lecture

An excellent lecturer, Randy Pausch, captured his "Last Lecture" on video. Although not geared as a how-to video, this poignant nature of the human spirit, educational endeavor, and life's triumphs are captivating in this amazing lecture that was viewed by millions. Sadly, Professor Randy Pausch lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008. He is gone is in body, but his spirit and joy for life lives on in "The Last Lecture."Learning also occurs by example and by coicidence.

Helpful Websites!

Assisted Learning for All (ALFA), provides a multitude of nursing procedure pictures and videos. It is set up by content specific tabs as offering by nursing prgrams that progress from Med-Surg to Advanced Nursing. Oncology nurses also have to be fluent in general nursing skills in order to be proficient in providing advanced care such as chemotherpay administration and stem cell transplantation.

Assisted Learning for All

The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) provides a wealth of evidence based oncology nursing information including technology,  clinical practice, and education.  On-line chat and podcasts are used to provide an enriched educational experience. 

Oncology Nursing Society

Project VIPER provides on-line how-to video about plebotomy, peripheral IV line insertion, and arterial blood gas draws. There is a saying specific to clients with leukemia, "Leukemia patients live and die by their laboratory data." Leukemia patients often have muliple laboratory draws to trend the disease progress as well as treatment progress. Not all leukemia patients have central access devices, and some laboratory draws must be performed by peripheral stick due to continuous drug infusions. It is necessary for practitioners to be skillfull in blood draws.

Project VIPER

The American Cancer Society Provides technology resources in terms of cancer prevention, screening, and treatment as well as healthcare provider information.

The American Cancer Society

SkillStat Learning provides educational tools that are "fun, fast, and effective. Some of their offerings include an ECG stimulator, ACLS STAT, and Heartscape. Oncology nursing includes the nursing of patients with mutliple co-morbidities. Cancer is not often a single disease that the client faces. Oncology nurses need to be astute in ECG interpretation and cardiac nursing due to the known cardiogenic effects of chemotherapies

SkillStat Learning

Carmel Pharma USA is the maker of such new technological advances in chemotherapy administration devices such as the PhaSeal.

Carmel Pharma USA

ORLive Inc., provides videos of multiple surgical and diagnotic procedures and educational videos for client care. Oncolog nursing does not occur in a vaccum. Oncology nursing, like nursing in general, occurs within a multidisciplinary healthcare team arena. In order to accurately teach and care for our diverse clients, we need to be aware of general surgical procedural basics. This site provides a wealth of information including pancreatic cancer videos, breast reconstruction for breast cancer, as well as a video on acute oncologic emergencies.

ORLive, Inc.

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Danya