Course Description
Caring for patients with cancer or those receiving palliative or hospice care requires an understanding of how disease and treatment can affect skin integrity. This course focuses on recognizing common skin-related concerns and reviewing when and how to report skin changes and symptoms to the nurse or clinical team per facility policy.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, the learner will be able to:
- Describe foundational concepts of cancer and its effects on the skin.
- Review common skin-related concerns in cancer, palliative, and hospice care.
- Recognize when to report skin changes and symptoms to the nurse or clinical team according to facility policy.
Intended Audience
This educational activity was developed for healthcare assistants.
Course Information
This is a microlearning course. Microlearning is an approach to learning new information in small segments of 3-15 minutes in length. This course is mobile-friendly!
There is no CE associated with this course. A certificate of completion is awarded, but no contact hours are awarded. If you are interested in earning CE, navigate to and complete the full version of this course.
Course Authors
This course was written by Brenda Kozak, DNP, MSN-Ed, RN, CNE.
Brenda is a certified nurse educator with over 25 years of clinical experience. She earned her Doctorate in Nursing Practice and a Master of Science in Nursing focusing on education.