Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer - SPOC

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.

 

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 Participation
Course opens: 
11/14/2023
Course expires: 
11/30/2027
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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
Adolescent and Young Adult Program
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

 

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Catharine Swift, MSW, LCSW

Clinical Social Worker
Adolescent and Young Adult Program
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
UNC School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This Non-Credit Course does not have accreditation. It only offers general participation certificates.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 Participation
Please login or register to take this course.

Requirements for Receiving Free General Participation Certificates

  • Watch the video
  • Complete the assessment with a score of 80% or better
  • Complete the evaluation
  • Download the certificate