Health and social work personnel with upper secondary education, assistant occupational therapist education or equivalent.

Target group:
People with an interest in cancer care and palliative care, and who would like a deeper professional and personal competence within this field, who want to acquire the competence to work with this target group, and who also would like to contribute to the build-up of a professional service offer in hospitals, homes and local nursing home.

Module 1: Common topics

Module 2: Cancer illnesses and forms of treatment

Module 3: Rehabilitation

Module 4: Palliative care towards the end of life

Module 5: More advanced topics in care of the cancer and palliative care

On completing the course you will:

Have an overall understanding of what it means to be diagnosed with cancer and how this can affect the patient, his/her famiy and social network.

You will have acquired knowledge and understanding of grief and crisis reactions and be capable of entering into dialogue with seriously ill patients and their next of kin.

You will know about the most common types of cancer, symptoms, palliative care and treatment.

You will have developed and informed preception of your own values in relation to illness, suffering and death and of your own professional and personal engagement and limitations and be capable of initiating, organising and implementing courses of action in cooperation with the patient, next of kin and others.

Flexible - online support - group sessions - classroom teaching