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Making Exercise and Wellness Part of Cancer Care (PCC LIVE)

Presented April 14, 2021 as part of the UNC Lineberger Cancer Network’s Patient Centered Care lecture series.

Presenters

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Carly Bailey, MA
Program Director
Physical Activity and Integrative Oncology
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
UNC School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Brianna Castrogivanni, MS, RCEP
Clinical Research Coordinator
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
UNC School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Making Exercise and Wellness Part of Cancer Care

This lecture will provide education on the safety and benefit of exercise during and after cancer treatment, resources that we have available at UNC and how you can help your patients implement exercise and wellness behaviors during and after their treatment.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the ACSM exercise recommendations for cancer patients and survivors.
  • Recognize the role of exercise and wellness during and after cancer treatment to help patients manage symptoms, maintain physical function and improve quality of life.
  • Demonstrate an understanding about how to provide your patients with exercise and wellness resources and help them set short-term exercise and wellness goals.

Credits Offered

  • 1.0 ANCC (NCPD/CNE) hours of study
  • 1.0 ACPE contact hour
  • 1 ASRT Category A CE Credit
  • General Participation

Requirements

To receive credit for this course, you must:

  1. Attend at least 50 minutes minutes of the session.
  2. Obtain the attendance verification password from your site coordinator or via the attendee follow-up email from the UNCLCN Site Coordinator.
  3. Complete the course evaluation.
  4. Select credit type.

Estimated course completion time: 10 minutes

Disclosures

This activity has been planned and implemented under the sole supervision of the course directors, in association with the UNC Office of Continuing Professional Development (UNC CPD). William A Wood, MD, MPH, and CPD staff have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests as defined by the ACCME.

The speakers, Carly Bailey, MA, and Brianna Castrogivanni, MS, RCEP, has no financial relationships with commercial interests as defined by the ACCME.

Accreditation

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Approved by the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy for ACPE.

Approved by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT).