What Every Nurse Needs To Know About Breast Cancer
An Overview And Update of Breast Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Expiration Date: December 31, 2009. No CE contact hours (CH) will be given after this date.
Purpose: To provide registered nurses with evidence-based information on the latest strategies for identifying and managing breast cancer.
Objectives:
- 1. Differentiate the stages of breast cancer.
2. Identify techniques for breast cancer screening and diagnosis.
3. Discuss surgical treatment of breast cancer.
4. Describe nonsurgical therapies for breast cancer.
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Authors
The authors are Oncology Nurse Practitioners at the Marshfield Clinic, which has centers throughout Wisconsin. Julene Diedrich, MSN, RN, FNP, AOCNP, and Jessica Engel, MSN, RN, FNP, AOCN, work at the Marshfield center. Jill Depke, MSN, RN, ANP, AOCNP, works at the Weston center. The authors do not have any financial arrangements or affiliations with any corporations offering financial support or educational grants for continuing nursing education activities.
1.6 contact hours, including 0.5 pharmacology contact hour, are provided by ANA.
The American Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP6178.
