Nurses Caring for Patient's with Cancer

Class welcome to Nurses Caring for Patient's with Cancer Blog.

Cancer is a disease that impacts just about everyone. Although today certain types of cancer can be successfully treated, if left untreated it will lead to certain death.

Oncology nurses care for people with cancer. Nurses that care for persons with cancer are not just treating the physical disease process they are caring for the whole person in every aspect; this is called holistic care.

What is Cancer ?

How does cancer develop?

Cancer effects all ages and is the second leading cause of death (heart disease is #1).

The American Cancer Society is a resource website that is free for public use. It offers a wealth of information related to cancer, treatment and support, risk factors, staying healthy, and research.

Visit the linked resources within the Blog and share how you would utilize these sites as student nurse and find two new concepts you have learned.

In this weeks Blog please reflect on a time in your life when you were first exposed to someone with cancer. What are your thoughts, how did you react and cope? As nurses professionally deal with life and death situations they must take a personal inventory of their experiences also. Video clips, pictures, links... may be added to contribute tothe Blog if they support or are related to the topic being discussed.