BACKGROUND Use of a patient classification system particular to the unit, including size of nursing staff, is required for nurses to have adequate staffing and provide high-quality nursing care in oncology units. OBJECTIVES The study was conducted to create a planning system for nursing staff size for an outpatient chemotherapy unit at a university hospital. METHODS The study was conducted ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine the current patterns of use of personal protective equipment among oncology nurses while handling antineoplastic chemotherapeutic agents in outpatient and office-based settings. DESIGN Descriptive-correlational, mailed survey. SETTING National survey of oncology nurses. SAMPLE 500 randomly selected members of the Oncology Nursing Society who identified thei...

BACKGROUND Nurses play a substantial role in the prevention and management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). OBJECTIVES This study set out to describe nurses' roles in the prevention and management of CINV and to identify any gaps that exist across countries. METHODS A self-reported survey was completed by 458 registered nurses who administered chemotherapy to cancer patie...

Cancer is an international health problem with a growing occurrence. Chemotherapy currently the standard of care for majority solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. Oncology nurses play significant role in delivery patient education. Objective(s): This study aims at assessing knowledge toward oncologic patients during chemotherapy management. In addition, to find out relationship between nu...

Chemotherapy medication errors may lead to potentially harmful consequences while most of them could be preventable. This study aims to determine the incidence and type of drug handling and administration errors among the nurses and to identify possible contributing factors. Setting of the study was a teaching hospital affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medic...

OBJECTIVE The administration of chemotherapy forms a major part of the clinical role of oncology nurses. When a mistake is made during chemotherapy administration, admitting and reporting the error timely could save the lives of cancer patients. The main objective of this study was to assess the perceptions of oncology nurses about why chemotherapy administration errors are not reported. METH...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine patterns of personal protective equipment (PPE) used by oncology nurses while handling hazardous drugs (HDs) and to assess knowledge of the 2004 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Alert and its effect on precaution use. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational. SETTING The Oncology Nursing Society 31st Annual Congress in Boston, MA, in 200...

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced in January 2006 the use of intraperitoneal (IP) combined with IV chemotherapy postoperatively as the preferred treatment method for advanced ovarian cancer. The announcement stimulated the need for oncology nurses to become familiar with IP chemotherapy administration and patient management guidelines. IP administration allows a high concentration o...

The focus of this study was to assess the feasibility and clinical implementation of a standardized assessment for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) by registered nurses in patients undergoing neurotoxic chemotherapy. A total of 24 registered nurses from 4 different institutions were enrolled into the study. A pre- and posttest design was used to assess changes in nurses' attitu...