Survey of urology nurses on occupation protection from intravesical chemotherapy
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1001-9391.2015.03.010
- VernacularTitle:泌尿外科膀胱灌注化疗操作护理人员职业防护知识及行为调查
- Author:
E DING
1
;
Xiulian XU
;
Xiangdong JIAN
Author Information
1. 山东大学齐鲁医院化疗科
- Keywords:
Nurses;
Intravesical chemotherapy;
Anticancer drugs;
Occupational exposure
- From:
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases
2015;33(3):198-200
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate the awareness of self protection and practice of nurses from urology department when giving intravesical chemotherapy to patients with urinary bladder cancer.Methods One survey via a self-designed questionnaire and an on-the-spot examination of anticancer drugs preparing were done and compared among 42 nurses from urology department and 48 nurses from oncology department.Results All nurses from oncology department were trained with anticancer drugs-associated knowledge and 83.3％ nurses from urology department had received some training (P＜0.05).Over 64.6％ nurses from department of medical oncology were familiar with all the five parts of chemotherapy drugs protection protocol,while only 40.5％ nurses from department of urology were aware of them.During the on-the-spot examination,50.0％ and 21.4％ nurses respectively from oncology department and urology department could complete seven anticancer drugs preparation procedure correctly (P＜0.05).Conclusions The nurses from urology department had weak awareness of self protection and were lack of chemotherapy associated training and standard practice when giving intravesical chemotherapy.It is imperative to work out a protection plan to educate the nurses and establish the protocols for preparing anticancer drugs to reduce the occurrence of occupational hazard.
