Authors (including presenting author) :
Lee WK(1), Lee KY(1), Wong HT(1)
Affiliation :
(1) Haematology & Oncology Centre, Hong Kong Children's Hospital
Introduction :
Chemotherapy medication incidents ranked high in hospital. There are various factors in occurrence of medication incidents. A scenario-based training on administration of intravenous (IV) chemotherapy was implemented to all nurses who were working in the unit and found effective to improve compliance rate in medication administration.
Objectives :
1. To enhance safety of intravenous chemotherapy administration of paediatric oncology nurses
2. To reinforce nurse compliance on the intravenous chemotherapy administration guideline
Methodology :
Chemotherapy protocol with twelve scenarios would be randomly assigned to each nurse. They had to perform the administration of intravenous chemotherapy as usual as the unit guideline. At the end of the training session, a debriefing and evaluation would be carried out. A satisfaction survey was distributed to the participants to rate the training programme.
Result & Outcome :
The scenario-based training gained over 95% compliance in administration of IV chemotherapy, and a high satisfactory score among the participants. There was a decreasing trend of medication incidents related to chemotherapy after the training programme was implemented. The result also showed nurses with less clinical experience had lower compliance in the assessment. Clinical experience with 0-3 years scored compliance rate 96.1% which with over 3 years scored 99.2-100%
