TY - JOUR
T1 - Medical and nursing education and training opportunities to improve survivorship care
AU - Ferrell, Betty R.
AU - Winn, Rodger
PY - 2006/11/10
Y1 - 2006/11/10
N2 - Improving the quality of care for cancer survivors is contingent on having physicians, nurses, and other professionals with adequate training in survivorship care. Previous literature has documented the deficiencies in existing formal education programs regarding the complex needs of this growing population. Continuing education programs and basic curricula need to incorporate the expanding body of knowledge regarding the physiologic and psychosocial sequlae of survivorship. This article reviews the current status of survivorship education and provides direction for essential content in future education. Topics such as prevention of secondary cancers, long-term complications, rehabilitation services, quality-of-life issues, pain and symptom management, and treatment of recurrent cancer are critical competencies of education that should then become routine care for cancer survivors.
AB - Improving the quality of care for cancer survivors is contingent on having physicians, nurses, and other professionals with adequate training in survivorship care. Previous literature has documented the deficiencies in existing formal education programs regarding the complex needs of this growing population. Continuing education programs and basic curricula need to incorporate the expanding body of knowledge regarding the physiologic and psychosocial sequlae of survivorship. This article reviews the current status of survivorship education and provides direction for essential content in future education. Topics such as prevention of secondary cancers, long-term complications, rehabilitation services, quality-of-life issues, pain and symptom management, and treatment of recurrent cancer are critical competencies of education that should then become routine care for cancer survivors.
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U2 - 10.1200/JCO.2006.06.0970
DO - 10.1200/JCO.2006.06.0970
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17093277
AN - SCOPUS:34247211624
SN - 0732-183X
VL - 24
SP - 5142
EP - 5148
JO - Journal of Clinical Oncology
JF - Journal of Clinical Oncology
IS - 32
ER -