Team numbers training
| Work roles | Selection qualification | The content of training | Work responsibilities |
| Doctor | Full-time engaged in head and neck cancer medical work for more than 10 years, voluntary participation in this study. | Patient admission standards, treatment of complications and adverse events, ensure that the treatment of the enrolled patients was similar; answer of disease-related knowledge, evaluation of rehabilitation effect, emphasise the follow-up of patients. | Screening of patients, diagnosis and treatment of patients’ diseases, the answer of disease-related knowledge and evaluation of rehabilitation effect. |
| Nurses in the control group | Nurse practitioner and above, full-time engaged in head and neck cancer care for more than 5 years, voluntary participation in this study. | Workflow, work responsibilities, standardisation of routine nursing process during perioperative period, home nursing education before discharge (respiratory, swallowing and neck function training, trachestomy annular tube care and home nutrition management). | Perioperative nursing and home nursing education before discharge. |
| Nurses in the intervention group | Nurse practitioner and above, full-time engaged in head and neck cancer care for more than 5 years, voluntary participation in this study. | Workflow, work responsibilities, self-care intervention plan (help patients establish self-care awareness, the same home nursing content as the control group, additional consisting of self-care feedback and supervision). | Self-care intervention plan, home care education before discharge, supervision of patients’ home self-care. |
| Data collector | Master degree with clinical trial experience. | Measurements, standardised terminology of questionnaire and post-discharge follow-up. | Data collection at each time node. |