Integrating the Caregiver as a Member of the Multidisciplinary Care Team - SPOC

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Webinar Description

Erin Kent, PhD, MSc and Loretta Muss, RN, BA will discuss How to recruit the caregiver into the patient’s plan of care and understanding the role and the stresses of being an oncology caregiver.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe who caregivers are and how they assist patients with cancer.
  • Explain how caregiving can take a toll on caregivers' own health.
  • List different ways that caregivers can be supported and integrated into the multidisciplinary care team.

 

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 Participation
Course opens: 
01/01/2023
Course expires: 
04/30/2027
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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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Erin E. Kent, PhD, MSc

Associate Chair and Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management

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

 

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Loretta Muss, RN, BA

N.C. Cancer Hospital Patient & Family Advisory Council Coordinator

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

 

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