Question

A nurse educator who coordinates the staff education on an oncology unit is conducted an inservice on targeted therapies. what potential benefit of targeted therapies should the nurse highlight in this education session?

Answer 1

Based on current practices the nurse should lecture about three kinds of therapies which are surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

The nurse should be able to differentiate each therapy and explain the effects together with the implications that it can bring to people who would undergo one of the therapies. They should understand it carefully because someday they would experience this case in the future.