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Date	Topic
June 9, 2010	Workforce/Workplace Issues and Strategies for Success
July 22, 2010	Long Term Breast Cancer Survivorship Care--Who will provide it and What are the needs
Aug 4, 2010	Patient safety issues, including safe handling of hazardous drugs, infections
Sept 1, 2010	Treatment updates--new treatments and their nursing implications--including target treatments, new chemoregimens/drugs, new radiotherapies
Oct 13, 2010	Psychosocial and communication issues--including psychosocial
Nov 3, 2010	Nutritional issues in cancer
Dec 1, 2010	Women's health issues in cancer specifically sexuality, intimacy, and other issues

2010 Webinar Description

Workforce/Workplace Issues and Strategies for Success
June 9, 2010 (11pm - 12am GMT)

Presenter: Sean Clarke, RN, PhD, FAAN
Institution: University of Toronto - Faculty of Nursing
Country: Canada

In this presentation, key aspects of nurse workforces globally will be reviewed, as well as the major challenges facing these two countries, both in general and in terms of specialist and advanced practice clinicians, including demographic trends, technological change, economic crises and workforce shortages destined to worsen in the coming years. Nursing management and policy implications and strategies will also be discussed.

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Long Term Breast Cancer Survivorship Care--Who will provide it and What are the needs
July 22, 2010 (2pm -3pm GMT)
Presenter: Lillie D Shockney, RN., BS., MAS

Institution: Distinguished Service Associate Professor of Breast Cancer Associate Professor, JHU School of Medicine, Depts of Surgery and Gynecology Associate Professor, JH School of Nursing Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center
Country: USA

Learning Objectives:

Understand the cancer paradigm shift-- why will there be a shortage of oncologist specialists in the future
Learn the psychological and physical needs of breast cancer survivors long term and how best to address these needs.
Identify the primary side effects that breast cancer survivors have to cope with long term and the nurse's role in assessing and managing them.

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Patient Safety Issues, including Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs, Infections

August 4, 2010 (11pm -12am GMT)

Presenter: Marty Polovich, PhD, RN, AOCN
Institution: Duke Oncology Network
Country: United States

Learning Objectives:

State two methods of improving patient safety in oncology nursing
Discuss current recommendations for the safe handling of hazardous drugs
Describe interventions that reduce the occurrence of infection in oncology patients

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Treatment Updates--New Treatments and their Nursing Implications--including Target Treatments, New Chemoregimens/Drugs, New Radiotherapies

September 1, 2010 (2pm - 3pm GMT)

Presenter: Lena Sharp, RN, Ph D, Chief Nursing Officer
Institution: Karolinska University Hospital, Department of Oncology
Country: Sweden

Educational Objectives:

Identify new treatment options and their impact in the management of cancer patients.
Identify current best practices for symtom management and support for cancer patients and their families in relation to these new treatments
Define key issues for effective patient education, information needs, adherence and monitoring

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Psychosocial and Communication Issues--including Psychosocial

October 13, 2010 (11pm -12am GMT)

Presenter: Sally Thorne, PhD, RN, FCAHS
Institution: UBC School of Nursing
Country: Canada

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Nutritional Issues in Cancer
November 3, 2010 (2pm - 3pm GMT)

Presenter: Jane Hopkinson
Institution: Macmillan Post Doctoral Fellow, School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton
Country: United Kingdom

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Women's Health Issues in Cancer Specifically Sexuality, Intimacy, and Other Issues
December 1, 2010 (11pm -12am GMT)

Presenter: Amanda Horden, PhD
Institution: The Cancer Council Victoria
Country: Australia

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