Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

September 13, 2023

This live webinar has already taken place.

You can watch a recording of the webinar in our video library.

Take any of our Self-Paced, Online Courses and complete an assessment and an evaluation to earn free CE credit*.

 

*In most cases, Accreditation prohibit the repeated use of the same educational activity (Live Webinar or Self-Paced, Online Course but not both) as it relates to satisfying CE requirements to maintain licensure. Attendees are also required to achieve a score of 80% or better on an assessment for the Self-Paced, Online Course to receive CE credit. Please contact your individual accreditation agencies for more details.

Webinar Information

Webinar Description

Adolescent and Young adults living with a cancer diagnosis have unique needs, strengths and challenges. This webinar will highlight tools and strategies that healthcare providers can deploy to meet the medical and psychosocial needs of the AYAs in their care.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the unique and unmet needs of adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer.
  • Describe tools that health care professionals can use to provide developmentally and age appropriate care to AYAs.
  • Recognize strategies that health care professionals and healthcare systems can deploy to create a better treatment environment for AYAs.

 

Webinar Documents

Handouts

 

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy Tech
  • 1.00 ASRT
  • 1.00 NCPD/CNE
  • 1.00 Participation
Course opens: 
11/28/2022
Course expires: 
09/20/2023
Event starts: 
09/13/2023 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
09/13/2023 - 1:00pm EDT
Patient Centered Care Logo 

The Cancer Treatment in North Carolina: Patient Centered Care webinar series covers components of patient-centered health care delivery in cancer treatment and survivorship. The focus of this series is not disease-specific but includes discussion of approaches to improving care delivery for all cancer patients and survivors.

These webinars provide FREE continuing education credit.

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Lauren Lux, MSW

Program Director, UNC Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program
Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
UNC School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

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Melissa Matson, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC

Nurse Practitioner, Adolescent and Young Adult Program

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
UNC School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Photo of Catharine Swift, MSW, LCSW 

Catharine Swift, MSW, LCSW

Clinical Instructor
Department of Psychiatry

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
UNC School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Presenter Disclosure Information

The presenters have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies as defined by the ACCME.

FREE Continuing Education Credit Requirements

Attend 50 minutes or more at the following locations:

 
Camera icon

Use Zoom Link
in the online course

 
  • Must be able to see video and slides
  • Joining by Audio-only does not qualify for CE credit
  • Complete online evaluation, select credit, and download certificate
Classroom icon

Attend at a
designated in-person site

 
  • Site Coordinator uploads attendance
  • UNCLCN sends link to in-person participants
  • Complete online evaluation, select credit, and download certificate

Attendees have 7 days from the webinar air date to complete the online evaluation, select type of continuing education credit, and download a certificate.

See our detailed instructions for more information on attending live webinars and receiving credit.

Please contact us with any questions at unclcn@unc.edu or (919) 445–1000.

 

Accreditation Statements

The following accrediting agencies have approved this course for continuing education credits. Participants should understand that their individual participation and claiming credit must abide by the regulations set forth by their respective accrediting agency. No partial credit will be provided.

1.00 NCPD/CNE
UNC Health is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
The University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Statements of credit can be viewed and printed in CPE Monitor in approximately 2 to 3 weeks.

1.00 ACPE Pharmacy Tech
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
The University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Statements of credit can be viewed and printed in CPE Monitor in approximately 2 to 3 weeks.

1.00 CTR
Approved by the National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA).

1.00 ASRT
Approved by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT).

 

Notice

In most cases, regulations prohibit the repeated use of the same educational activity (Live Webinar or Self-Paced, Online Course but not both) as it relates to satisfying CE requirements to maintain licensure. Attendees are also required to view a minimum of 50 minutes of the live webinar video to receive CE credit. Please contact your individual accreditation agencies for more details.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy Tech
  • 1.00 ASRT
  • 1.00 NCPD/CNE
  • 1.00 Participation
Please login or register to take this course.

 

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FREE Continuing Education Credit Requirements

Attend 50 minutes or more at the following locations:

 
Camera icon

Use Zoom Link
in the online course

 
  • Must be able to see video and slides
  • Joining by Audio-only does not qualify for CE credit
  • Complete online evaluation, select credit, and download certificate
Classroom icon

Attend at a
designated in-person site

 
  • Site Coordinator uploads attendance
  • UNCLCN sends link to in-person participants
  • Complete online evaluation, select credit, and download certificate

Attendees have 7 days from the webinar air date to complete the online evaluation, select type of continuing education credit, and download a certificate.

See our detailed instructions for more information on attending live webinars and receiving credit.

Please contact us with any questions at unclcn@unc.edu or (919) 445–1000.