Introduction: Recently, oral chemotherapy has become a popular treatment modality in the of cancer. However, cancer patients and their family members show to have limited knowledge on use safely. Objectives: The objective study was explore life experiences breast undergoing chemotherapy. Methods: A purposeful sample strategy 3 survivors used gather data using semi-structured interviews. Collaiz...

BACKGROUND Three decades of research findings have documented the health effects of handling hazardous drugs. Oncology nurses are vulnerable due to frequent administration of antineoplastics, low adherence to equipment use, reported barriers to use, and perceived low risk of health effects. No interventions have been tested in a controlled, multi-site trial to increase nurses' use of protective...

background: regarding nurses' significant role in improving quality of marital life in mastectomy patients and their families, implication of the adaptation model can help nurses reaching this goal. aim: this study aimed to determine effect of an educational-supportive program based on roy this quasi-experimental study was performed on 69 mastectomy patients receiving chemotherapy in 2013 ...

evaluation of the effects of educational package on controlling the complications of chemotherapeutic agents on symptom scales of quality of life in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy    baghaei r [1] *, sharifi m [2] , mohammadpour y [3] , sheykhi n [4]     received: 9 jul , 2013 accepted: 14 sep , 2013    abstract  background & aims : today breast cancer is the most common ma...

Aggressive chemotherapy protocols result in neutropenia in approximately half of all patients receiving chemotherapy. Thus, neutropenia continues to be a significant and potentially life-threatening side effect of treatment, even with use of colony-stimulating factors. Families of patients with neutropenia often provide the primary healing environment because most chemotherapy protocols are man...

In early 2006, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) issued a Clinical Announcement suggesting that intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy should become the standard of care for patients with newly diagnosed stage III optimally debulked epithelial ovarian cancer. IP chemotherapy, the administration of chemotherapy or biologic therapy via catheter into the peritoneal space, is new to many healthcare pr...

Complex, multidrug chemotherapy protocols commonly are administered to patients with cancer. At every step of the chemotherapy administration process, from the point that chemotherapy is ordered to the point that it is infused and beyond, potential for error exists. FMEA, a proactive process that promotes systematic thinking about the safety of patient care, is a risk analysis technique that ca...

Because patients with cancer self-administer oral chemotherapy, they typically do not receive the same amount of teaching and monitoring as patients receiving i.v. chemotherapy. Patient education is vital to promote patient safety, optimal dosing, and adherence to the treatment plan. Oncology nurses need to tailor their patient education efforts to the individual needs of each patient and use r...

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the factors affecting chemotherapy medication errors made by new nurses and use results as basic data for development of a nursing education program nurses.Methods: cross-sectional was conducted with 189 working at general hospital tertiary in Korea. The collection period from January 11 February 7, 2021. collected during this were analyzed using IBM SPSS s...