ABSTRACT

Background: The nature of chemotherapy drugs makes them harmful to healthy cells and tissues as well as cancerous cells Chronic effects that have been identified in patients given these drugs include cancer, infertility, miscarriage, birth defects, damage to the liver and kidney, bone marrow, the lungs and heart, and hearing impairment. PI are required to assess the exposure hazards of their work with chemotherapy and other hazardous drugs to determine the appropriate precautions and controls to be taken. Aim: to find the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding safe handling and administration of chemo therapeutic drugs among staff nurses. Materials and Method: a Pre- experimental one group pretest-posttest design was selected for the study. The primary objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding safe handling andadministration of chemo therapeutic drugs among staff nurses. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to select 48 samples are assigned to collect the data. Result: The collected data were tabulated and analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The obtained X2 value is not significant. Hence, the H2 is fails to accept. Result revealed that post- test mean knowledge score was 25.96±2.568 higher than pre-test mean knowledge score 11.98±2.471with mean difference was 13.98. The efficacy wasES examined using paired t test with obtained (t=28.39) at df=47was statistically significant at p<0.01 level. Hence, the H1 is to accept Conclusion: According to the results showed that a structured teaching programme was effective in increasing staff nurses' knowledge regarding the safe handling and administration of chemotherapeutic drugs. Keywords: effectiveness, structured teaching programme, safe handling, administration, chemotherapy, staff
Publication date: 15/12/2023

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2023/12.12.1059