Nursing staff knowledge regarding safe chemotherapy administration at oncology center in Kirkuk city

Abstract EN

Chemotherapy drugs are wide range of therapeutic medication used in the managing of cancer diseases.

Nursing staff prepare and administer chemotherapeutic drugs therefore they need more knowledge and competency in order to decrease adverse effect of the drugs to the cancer patients.

Aim of the study: to assess nurses knowledge regarding safe chemotherapy administration at oncology center in Kirkuk city.

A descriptive study was carried out from the period between 1st of February 2017 up to 1st of September 2017.

A non-probability (purposive) sampling was used to select the sample.

The study includes (40) nurses who works at the oncology center in Kirkuk city.

For the purpose of the study a constructed questionnaire was designed.

The data was collected through the utilization of selfadministration technique.

The data collection process was collected from the period of 1st of March 2017 up to the 1st April 2017.

The data was analyzed through the application SPSS program version (20).

The results revealed that the most study sample were between age group 18-23 year (40%), (65 %) were female, (62.5%) were nursing school graduate, (65%)of them were between (1-6) Years of experience, and (60%) were without Training Session.

The study concluded that nurses' knowledge regarding to safe chemotherapy administration was inadequate, and also inadequate regarding general information to chemotherapy drugs.

Chemotherapy safety administration standards should be applied for nurses that working in oncology center