Clinical Management: Supportive Cancer Care

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  On completing this subject, students will be able to:

  1. Recommend evidence-based approaches to prevent and minimise cancer symptom/treatment side effects to optimise patient function and comfort.
  2. Develop a patient-centred, comprehensive plan of care to facilitate quality of life in partnership with the patient, their caregivers and the interprofessional team.
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of different approaches to communication that are timely, effective, and context specific.
  4. Understand legal and ethical frameworks surrounding end-of-life decision-making for people living with cancer and their caregivers.
  5. Identify inherent strengths in patients, caregivers, families, and communities that support coping and adjusting to change and loss.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Murdoch University

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• MUR-CAN-GCE-2026 - Graduate Certificate in Cancer Nursing

Prior study

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:

• MUR-NUR504-Foundational Concepts in Cancer Care

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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