Cancer Modules - Graduate Certificate in Speciality Nursing (GCSN)
Welcome
Welcome to our post-graduate cancer program!
This innovative program will prepare graduates to become future cancer nurse specialists, consultants and nurse practitioners. This course provides students with the theoretical foundations for performing complex nursing assessments. It introduces standardised language to record nursing care and outcomes to enable the development of clinical nursing research projects.
Course Overview
The cancer program of the Graduate Certificate in Specialty Nursing (GCSN) offers an accredited post- graduate course for registered nurses to learn new cancer-related roles and skills to improve care for patients.
The course is available to nurses who care for cancer patients in the home or during intensive episodes of hospitalisation.
It includes two innovative, specialised electives: 'ambulatory infusion services' and 'radiation by body site' and introduces key tools, such as validated nursing patient assessment instruments and the use of nursing taxonomies to document nursing interventions and monitor nursing outcomes.
The cancer modules of the GCSN are provided to students live, and through downloadable web -based multimedia lecture materials to help overcome difficulties with attending 'real-time' lectures whilst staffing essential patient services.
Graduation February 2007
(See video-clip on page: 2006/7 Graduates)
Dr Vivien Lane, Cancer Nursing Research and Practice Development & Project Director of Pilot On-Line Clinical Education in Nursing (POLCEN)
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I welcome nurses to our SWAHS post-graduate cancer studies program and wish
you a rewarding career specialising in cancer nursing.
Our vision in The Sydney West Cancer Services Network is encapsulated in the concept of 'Caring Excellence', which is aimed at providing optimal patient care. However, this vision is entirely dependent upon individual members of the cancer multi-disciplinary team being keen to apply the most recent knowledge and skills to clinical care. To achieve this we must have excellent opportunities for teaching, learning and research.
I wish students of this cancer nursing program every success."
Assoc.Prof Paul Harnett, MB BS FRACP PhD Network Director, Sydney West Cancer Network
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