A survey to assess the knowledge and practice followed by nurses during administration of chemotherapy

Completed

Conditions: Participants selected for the present study are healthy nurses who are administering chemotherapy

Brief Summary: **Purpose:** The puprose of the study is to assess the level of knowledge and practices of nurses administering chemotherapy drugs at Tata Memorial Hospital.

It has been undertaken so to evaluate the implementation of standard operating procedure for chemotherapy administration and also to determine the knowledge nurses have regarding chemotherapy drug preparation and administration.

To assess the knowledge structured questionnaire has been prepared and to observe the practice checklist of the procedure has been prepared. Both are validated by 11 subject experts.Data collection period will be six weeks.Informed consent will be taken as per the suggestion of Institutional review board.Anonymity will be maintained during observation of the procedure.Data will be presented in the form of frequency and percentages.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Nurses who are working in chemotherapy administration areas.
Day care Wards OPD casualty for more than one year.Nurses who are willing to participate.

Exclusion Criteria

Nurses who are not permanent staff of Tata Memorial Hospital.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Primary outcome will be in the form of score of knowledge and practice that will be measured.	primary outcome is assessed on single time
For knowledge above 75 percent will be regarded as good knowledge 50-75 percent will be regarded as average knowledge and less than 50 percent will be regarded as poor knowledge.	primary outcome is assessed on single time
For practice less than 50 percent poor practice 51- 60 percent will be fair practice 61-70 good practice 71- 80 percent very good practice 81-90 percent excellant practice and more than 90 percent outstanding practice	primary outcome is assessed on single time

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Based on the primary outcome nurses may have good or bad knowledge and practice.	Secondary outcome will be assessed only at single point of time.

Locations (1): Tata Memorial Hospital
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Mumbai, MAHARASHTRA, India
Tata Memorial Hospital
🇮🇳Mumbai, MAHARASHTRA, India
Swapna S Joshi
Principal investigator
02224177007256
jswapna96@yahoo.com