Assessment of knowledge, skill and attitude of oncology nurses in chemotherapy administration in tertiary hospital Pakistan英文文献资料.docVIP

Open Journal of Nursing, 2012, 2, 97-103 OJN /10.4236/ojn.2012.22015 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojn/) Assessment of knowledge, skill and attitude of oncology nurses in chemotherapy administration in tertiary hospital Pakistan Najma Khan , Khurshid Zulfiqar Ali Khowaja , Tazeen Saeed Ali 1 2 3 1 2 3 Army Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan School of Nursing, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Email: ummadk@, khurshid.khowaja@alnoorhospital.ae, tazeen.ali@ Received 29 December 2011; revised 8 February 2012; accepted 22 February 2012 ABSTRACT care field, there is a dearth of nurses especially oncology certified nurses, when there is an increased patient vol- ume giving the nurse patient ration of 1:313. This makes nurses overworked and further due to limited resources, they do not have enough opportunity to enhance knowl- edge and skills in their specialty [6,7]. Objective: To measure the levels of nurse’s know- ledge and attitude after the conduct of education ses- sion regarding chemotherapy administration and man- agement. Methodology: This research study was con- ducted at two oncology units of tertiary Hospital Rawalpindi. A pre-post test intervention study design was used on 35 nurses by using Verity’s tools. Results: The mean scores of knowledge were calculated by Cochran’s Q test showed that knowledge scores have significantly increased with “educational training” (p value 0.001). The difference in the attitude of the nurses was not found to be statistically significant in repeated measure of ANOVA. Conclusion: The re- sults show that knowledge is the weakest component and attitude is strongest component of oncology nurses competencies in