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KMID : 1004620030090020006
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Clinical Nursing Research
2003 Volume.9 No. 2 p.6 ~ p.17
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Level of Knowledge and Compliance on Guidelines for Safe Handling of Cytotoxic Drugs by Career and Work Units in Clinical Nurses
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Choi Jin-Sun
Jun Myung-Hee
Kim Yeon-Hee
Kim Mae-Ja
Gong Sung-Hwa
Park Jong-Sun
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Abstract
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Purpose: To investigate the level of knowledge and compliance on guidelines for safe handling of cytotoxic drugs by career and work units in clinical nurses.
Method: 255 nurses working at two university hospitals, located at Seoul, Korea were asked to fill out questionnaires. Tools of this study were developed by investigators based on the guidelines issued by OSHA and Oncology Nursing Society in America.
Result: Nurses working at oncology wards showed higher level of knowledge and compliance compared with nurses working at non-oncology wards. The differences between two groups were statistically significant. Also, the level of knowledge and compliance was increased with career. The differences in the level of knowledge were statistically significant with career, but the differences in the level of compliance were not statistically significant.
Conclusion: We suggest that education program be provided to novice nurses intensively and be reinforced to the nurses with over 10 years experiences. Nowadays cancer patients be found at any ward regardless of disease types. Thus, the nurses who should handle the cytotoxic drugs should be educated the guideline for safe handling of cytotoxic drugs.
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KEYWORD
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Antineoplastic drug, Occupational safety, Knowledge, Compliance
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