TY - JOUR ID - 269544 TI - Influence of Antineoplastic Safe Handling Guidelines on Enhancing Nurses’ Performance JO - Egyptian Journal of Health Care JA - EJHC LA - en SN - 1687-9546 AU - Moustafa Elpasiony, Nafisa AU - Said Abdelhady Garf, Faten AU - Ali Hafez, Ahmed AU - Ramadan Ahmed, Shimaa AD - Medical-Surgical and Critical Care Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt AD - Community health nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt AD - Medical-Surgical and Critical Care nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Helwan University, Helwan, Egypt Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 13 IS - 4 SP - 1293 EP - 1307 KW - antineoplastic drugs KW - safe handling guidelines KW - and nurses’ performance DO - 10.21608/ejhc.2022.269544 N2 - Back ground: Chemotherapy is associated with several adverse effects not only for patients, butalso for nurses who handle, prepare and administer it like hair loss, skin rash and abortion. So,nurses are in urgent need of learning how to safely handle chemotherapy drugs to protectthemselves from serious complications. Aim: to enhance nurses’ performance in safe handling ofantineoplastic drugs. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted involving a conveniencesample of 40 nurses working at the Fayoum Oncology Center. Data were collected using five tools:nurses’ knowledge questionnaire, nurses’ practice tool, checklist of nurses’ attitudes towardantineoplastic drugs, checklist of adverse effects caused by exposure to antineoplastic drugs, andchecklist of nurses’ opinion on the causes of noncompliance to safe handling guidelines ofantineoplastic drugs. Results: A statistically significant difference in the overall knowledge,practices, and attitude of the nurses was observed between the pre- and post-program periods (p<0.001* ). Furthermore, a positive correlation was found between nurses’ knowledge and practicesduring both the pre- and post-program periods (r = 0.582, p< 0.001* and r = 0.297, p = 0.063,respectively). Conclusion and Recommendations: Based on the results presented in this study, thenurses’ performance enhanced, which forced us to continue training and monitoring. Furthermore,medical surveillance for nurses should be implemented to assess the prevalence of complications ofantineoplastic drugs. UR - https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/article_269544.html L1 - https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/article_269544_ee56e21df250539b1576b7295b87c75b.pdf ER -