RADT402 Patient Centred Radiation Therapy Advanced Practice

Overview

Quality of life assessment, supportive cancer care, cultural safety. Clinical reasoning. Evidenced based treatment and toxicities of head and neck, thorax and central nervous system sites. Symptom management.

RADT402 is the second paper in this qualification, and introduces students to the wider literature on patient centered and whanau centered care. The paper discusses how these can be developed in a radiation therapy setting. 

About this paper

Restriction

RADX 402

Limited to

PGCertHealSc

Eligibility

Suitable for Radiation Therapy graduates and health professional graduates with experience in the relevant field of healthcare.

Contact

rtenquiries.uow@otago.ac.nz

More information link

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Teaching staff

Associate Professor Peter Larsen

Aidan Leong

Paper Structure

This paper is structured around a series lectures, tutorials and student led presentations. 

Teaching Arrangements

This Distance Learning paper is taught remotely. 

Textbooks

Textbooks are not required for this paper.

Graduate Attributes Emphasised

Global perspective, interdisciplinary perspective, lifelong learning, scholarship, communication, critical thinking, cultural understanding, ethics, environmental literacy, information literacy, research, self-motivation, teamwork.
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Learning Outcomes

On the completion of this paper the successful student will understand:

• Approaches to improving patient-centred care during radiation therapy
• How to develop, implement and evauate patient-centred and whānau-centred care models
• Use of patient-reported outcome measures to assess patient-centred care in radiation therapy
• How to implement, evaluate and respond to patient-reported outcome measures

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