Effect of An Educational Program regarding Double Check for Safe Chemotherapy Administration on Nurses' Performance, Beliefs and Attitude | ||||
| Journal of Nursing Science Benha University | ||||
| Volume 4, Issue 2, July 2023, Page 232-254 PDF (803.56 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Scientific peer reviewed journal | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jnsbu.2023.307219 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Hend Shafee Emam Sayed* 1; Hanan Gaber Mohamed2; Safaa Mohamed El-Sayed3; Eman Sobhy Mohamed3 | ||||
| 1Senior 1st year Medical –Surgical Nursing, in Technical Nursing Institute, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University | ||||
| 2Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University | ||||
| 3Assistant Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Medication safety is the third recent global patient safety challenge by WHO. Chemotherapy agents is a high-risk drugs, so safety chemotherapy administration standards are intended to reduce the risk of error when providing patients. Aim of study: Evaluate the effect of an educational program regarding double check for safe chemotherapy administration on the oncology nurses' performance, beliefs and attitude. Study design: A quasi-experimental design was used to conduct the aim of the study. Settings: this study was conducted at outpatient and in-patient of chemotherapy unit at Benha University Hospital, and National Cancer Institute at Cairo University Hospitals. Subject: A convenient sample 50 nurses included: 20 from Benha University Hospital, and 30 from National Cancer Institute. Tools: Tools were used for data collection; self-administered questionnaire tool for nurses' knowledge, oncology nurse's beliefs and attitude toward double check, and observational checklist of the nurses' practice for double check technique, and patient safety assessment. Results: This study showed that most of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory level of knowledge, and incompetent levels of their practices, and patient safety assessment regarding double check technique (100%, 100%, and 98%) respectively preprogram intervention and improved satisfactory level immediately and post 1st and 3rd months of follow up program intervention (100%, 100% and 90%),(96%, 90%,and 84%)and (100%, 100%, and 88%)respectively of the studied nurses. Conclusion: This study concluded that there was a high statistically significant difference among oncology nurses' knowledge, practice, beliefs and attitudes pre and post of the educational intervention program, and between nurse1 and 2 regarding their practices of double check technique and patient safety assessment. Recommendations: The study recommended the importance of establishing booklet guidelines for oncology nurses regarding double check technique for safe chemotherapy administration. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Beliefs and Attitude; Double Check Technique (DCT); Educational Program; Nurses' Performance; Safe Chemotherapy Administration (SCA) | ||||
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