By the end of this lecture, the attendee will be able to:

1. Identify the essential role of palliative care in the care of people with cancer

2. Explain the contribution that nurses make to providing palliative care

3. Discuss the key principles and strategies for delivering quality palliative care

4. Recognise barriers to delivering palliative care in low and middle-income countries

By the end of this lecture, the attendee will be able to:

1. Define the most common treatment-induced sexual difficulties in Cancer Care.

2. Consider the socio-cultural, individual & health care system factors that adversely affect oncology professional’s ability to discuss and support those experiencing sexual consequences of cancer/treatment.

3. Outline the biomedical/behavioural strategies that can assist in the integrated management of sexual difficulties after cancer treatment.

By the end of this lecture, the attendee will be able to:

1. Understand the concept of nursing leadership.

2. Identify their and team members leadership style.

3. Describe key elements for transforming nursing profession

4. List the challenges faced by oncology nurses.

5. Identify any one leadership strategy they can implement in transforming cancer care.

By the end of this lecture, the attendee will be able to:

1. Identify at least 1 key difference between childhood cancers and adult cancers.

2. List at least 3 paediatric-specific challenges in nursing care.

3. Describe 3 important aspects of the nursing care of adolescents with cancer.

4. Summarise the physiological and psychosocial late effects of childhood cancer survivors.

By the end of this lecture, the attendee will be able to:

1. Explain how cervical cancer can be prevented.

2. Describe cost-effective screening methods and barriers to screening.

3. Explain cervical cancer treatment in resource-restricted countries.

4. Recognise the suffering of women living with cervical cancer and plan interventions to reduce suffering.

By the end of this lecture, the attendee will be able to:

1. Recognise and argue the importance of psychosocial interventions in cancer care.

2. Identify helpful guidelines for the screening, assessment and interventions to reduce psycho-social distress.

3. Understand the importance of a stepped care approach when providing psychosocial interventions.

4. Critically reflect on the potential benefits and threats of digital psychosocial interventions.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this lecture, the attendee will be able to:

1. Recognise some of the challenges faced by cancer nurses due to the COVID-19 pandemic

2. Describe ways taken to overcome some of the challenges in China and the UK

3. Critically reflect on the lessons learned within cancer nursing from the COVID-19 pandemic and how these can be applied to one's own practice.