Pooja Prakash
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Title: Effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding management of extravasation of chemotherapeutic drugs
Biography
Biography: Pooja Prakash
Abstract
More than 1 million intravenous (IV) chemotherapy infusion 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 a chemotherapeutic drugs through injections. The study was undertaken to assess the effectivenss of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding management of extravasation of chemotherapeutic drugs among staff nurses in selected hospitals Bangalore. The pre experimental one group pre test and post test 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. Pre-test was done using structured knowledge questionnaire on management of extravasation of chemotherapeutic drugs followed by structured teaching programme and Post test using same structured knowledge questionnaire. The data collected were analyzed and interpreted based on descriptive and inferential statistics.
The study finding showed that mean knowledge score of subject was 15.33 with standard deviation of 4.003 in pre test whereas in post test mean knowledge score was 24.67 with standard deviation of 5.384. There is significant difference in pre-test and post-test knowledge score regarding management of extravasation of chemotherapeutic drugs at p<0.001. Study concluded that structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge regarding management of extravasation of chemotherapeutic drugs among nurses.
Key words : Knowledge, Structured Teaching Programme, Extravasation, chemotherapeutic drugs.