Module PF4113-KP04

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

4

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2020, optional subject, nursing science

Classes and lectures:

• PF4113-S: Person-centred care in oncology (seminar, 1 SWS)
• PF4113-V: Person-centred care in oncology (lecture, 1 SWS)
• PF4113-Ü: Special care for people with oncological diseases (exercise, 1 SWS)

Workload:

• 45 hours in-classroom work
• 75 hours private studies

Contents of teaching:

• Assessment and management of needs, resources, problems and symptoms of the oncological disease and side effects of therapy (including supportive measures)
• Indications for as well as procedures and possible complications of oncological diagnostic and therapeutic measures involving nursing involvement in preparation, implementation and/or follow-up/care (e.g. chemotherapy and other pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies in oncology).
• Innovations in oncological therapy (including a focus on precision oncology)
• Special age groups in oncology: children and older, multimorbid people with cancer
• Person-centred communication with people with oncological diseases, their relatives and in the interprofessional team along the patient pathway from prevention to aftercare (especially cancer diagnosis, palliative care)
• Cross-professional (cross-sector) cooperation and care concepts in oncology (including special outpatient palliative care, pilot programmes in outpatient and inpatient care)

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Broadening/deepening knowledge: Participants can explain the concept of person-centred oncological care and apply it to nursing situations.
• Broadening/deepening knowledge: They can describe and explain the information and communication needs of people with oncological diseases and derive theoretically justified requirements for successful communication.
• Broadening/deepening knowledge: They know and understand the disease- and situation-specific care-related problems, resources and needs of people with oncological diseases from diagnosis to aftercare (e.g. symptoms of the disease, side effects of therapy).
• Knowledge dissemination/deepening: They can identify the care-relevant needs, preferences, resources and problems of people with oncological diseases and their family caregivers on a case-specific basis, describe these precisely, describe suitable goals for care and multi-professional care and select evidence-based suitable care strategies (including supportive measures) in the interprofessional team. They can also select and name suitable criteria for the evaluation of individual nursing and care outcomes.
• Broadening/deepening knowledge: They know and understand the indications for as well as the procedures and potential complications of special care interventions for people in need of care in this group of people. They know and understand existing evidence-based recommendations for action and have an understanding of the type and quality of the underlying body of knowledge.
• Broadening/deepening knowledge: They know and understand the indications for and the procedures and possible complications of special measures in oncological diagnostics and therapy that involve nursing involvement in the preparation, implementation and/or follow-up/care (e.g. preparation, implementation and follow-up of chemotherapy and other oncological therapies).
• Broadening knowledge: They know and understand the special features of new therapy concepts and innovative approaches in oncology (e.g. precision oncology).
• Deepening knowledge: They know and understand differences and similarities in therapy concepts for people with an oncological disease at different ages (e.g. children, older people).
• Instrumental, communicative and systemic competences: Participants can transfer the knowledge described above to self-experienced or hypothetical patient or care situations in oncology and critically compare these with the requirements for person-centred care. They can draw conclusions for their own professional actions.
• Instrumental, communicative and systemic competences: Participants are able to confidently apply suitable communication strategies in typical challenging communication situations with people with oncological diseases and/or their family carers.
• Instrumental, communicative and systemic competences: They are able to incorporate the perspectives of others involved in the care of oncologically ill people. In particular, they are able to involve relatives in the design of person-centred care.
• Dissemination/deepening of knowledge: They are sensitised to cross-sectoral and interprofessional cooperation and can contribute their own professional assessments orally and in writing to this cooperation in a manner appropriate to the target group and work constructively with other professional groups and institutions involved as required.
• Instrumental, communicative and systemic competences: Participants justify their own actions on the basis of scientific findings, in particular on the basis of guideline recommendations, developments in new technologies and institutional framework conditions, and integrate the needs, preferences, resources and problems of people with oncological diseases and their family carers into their justifications.
• Instrumental, communicative and systemic skills: They critically reflect on the potentials and limitations of the nursing profession and their own nursing activities in oncological care and recognise the need to further develop the roles, tasks and skills of the nursing profession in order to ensure person-centred care.

Grading through:

• presentation

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. phil. Anne Rahn

Teacher:

• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology - Section for Research and Teaching in Nursing
• Prof. Dr. phil. Anne Rahn
• Dr. Patrick Ristau
• MitarbeiterInnen des Instituts
• Prof. Dr. med. Nikolaus Bubnoff

Literature:

• See current module plan in the Moodle course :

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

23.06.2025