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Overview
This course provides strategies to enhance the safe handling and administration of hazardous drugs and patient adherence to oral anticancer treatments.Goals and Learning Outcomes
This course equips healthcare professionals with essential practices for safe and effective chemotherapy management. It addresses the risks associated with chemotherapy exposure, outlines risk mitigation strategies, and emphasizes the importance of adhering to safety standards and using personal protective equipment (PPE). Additionally, it highlights the challenges of medication adherence, particularly for oral chemotherapy, and underscores the need for ongoing, high-quality education to improve patient care and optimize treatment outcomes.
The goal of this course is to ensure the safe handling and administration of chemotherapy while also providing nurses, pharmacists, and physicians with strategies to enhance patient adherence to oral anticancer treatments.
- Recognize types of potential occupational exposure, the risks associated with hazardous drugs, and the importance of using personal protective equipment.
- Identify nonadherence factors, key components of patient education, and strategies for managing patients receiving oral chemotherapy.
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 12/1/2024
REL-ACU-0-ACHTS
Accreditations
NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791
Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.
CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.