Description
JOPHON Courses offer continuing education created from JOPHON, APHON’s acclaimed journal. These courses feature original, peer-reviewed research aimed at enhancing clinical nursing care for children and adolescents with cancer and blood disorders, and their families.
Title: Jul/Aug 2023 Art Unfolds Words: Expressing Hope Through Creative Art Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Have Advanced Cancer
Author(s): C. Robert Bennett, PhD, CPNP-AC, PPCNP-BC, Jennifer L. Raybin, PhD, RN, CPNP , Leara Glinzak, ATR-BC, MSAT, Heather Coats, PhD, APRN-BC, Kristine Gauthier, PhD, MPH, PNP-BC, Karen Sousa, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Verna L. Hendricks-Ferguson, PhD, RN, FPCN, FAAN
Course Overview: This course discusses the benefits of creative art therapy for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) living with advanced cancer, highlighting its role in enhancing self-expression, reducing symptom burden, and improving psychosocial care. It describes how objects in participants’ drawings symbolize hope and detail’s common themes and settings depicted in their artwork, such as familiarity and nature. The article also emphasizes the importance of creative art therapy across various stages of care and identifies limitations of the study, including selection bias.
Learning Outcomes:
- List the benefits of creative art therapy for AYAs living with advanced cancer.
- Describe objects that embodied hope for the study sample.
- Formulate recommendations for psychosocial care of AYAs living with advanced
APHON will provide 1 nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) contact hour(s) for the successful completion of this course. Successful completion of:
- JOPHON Article Review
- Post-Test
- Evaluation
APHON Related Organization Education
- Pediatric nurses – Society of Pediatric Nurses: Home
- ASPHO – Webinars · ASPHO
Individual Learning Needs Assessment (ILNA) Coding
The program content has been reviewed by the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC) and is acceptable for recertification points. You may claim 1 CNE in one of the following ILNA categories: Care Continuum, Psychosocial Dimensions of Care, OR Care of the Pediatric Hem/Onc Patient
Please reach out to the Education Team at education@aphon.org with your name, the email associated with your APHON account, and the above ILNA category you would like to have reflected on your certificate and APHON can update your completion certificate to reflect your choice.
