Pooja Prakash
Lecturer of Medical-Surgical Nursing Department , Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Title: Effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding management of extravasation of chemotherapeutic drugs
Biography
Biography: Pooja Prakash
Abstract
More than one million Intravenous (IV) chemotherapy infusions are given worldwide each day that leads to extravasation. According to National Extravasation Information Service (2013), the incidence of extravasation is 39% in adults out of which 5% received chemotherapeutic drugs through injections. The study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding management of extravasation of chemotherapeutic drugs among staff nurses in selected hospitals Bangalore. The pre experimental one group pretest and posttest design was adopted for the study. Non-probability convenience sampling technique was used to obtain 30 staff nurses directly involved in administration of chemotherapeutic drugs in different areas of Ramaiah Medical College Hospital, Bangalore. Pretest was done using structured knowledge questionnaire on management of extravasation of chemotherapeutic drugs followed by structured teaching program and posttest using same structured knowledge questionnaire. The data collected were analyzed and interpreted based on descriptive and inferential statistics. The study findings showed that mean knowledge score of subject was 15.33 with standard deviation of 4.003 in pretest whereas in posttest mean knowledge score was 24.67 with standard deviation of 5.384. There is significant difference in pretest and posttest knowledge score regarding management of extravasation of chemotherapeutic drugs at p<0.001. Study concluded that structured teaching program was effective in improving the knowledge regarding management of extravasation of chemotherapeutic drugs among nurses.