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Quality of Nursing Care Provided to Children Undergoing Chemotherapy

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Last updated: 29 Dec 2024

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Background: The care of children with cancer is very specialized, and in order to deliver high-quality care, nurses must be educated, skilled, and committed to standard guidelines. Aim: To assess the quality of nursing care provided to children undergoing chemotherapy. Design: A descriptive design was used for this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the Oncology Institution in Sohag City. Sample: A convenient sample of all available nurses (40 nurses) who are working with children undergoing chemotherapy at the Oncology Institution in Sohag City. Tools: Two tools were used for data collection. Tool (I): A personal data sheet. Tool (II): Observational checklist. Results: There was a highly statistical significant statistical positive correlation between the studied nurses assessment of the patient before administration, providing patient/caregiver education, pre-administration considerations, chemotherapy/biotherapy administration, post administration of chemotherapy/biotherapy care and quality of nursing care. Conclusion: On the light of the current study results, 75% of the studied nurses had incompetent level of quality of nursing care provided to children undergoing chemotherapy, while 25% of them had competent level of quality of nursing care provided to children undergoing chemotherapy. Recommendations: Develop training courses regarding chemotherapy administration among pediatric  nurses.

DOI

10.21608/sjns.2024.292570.1039

Keywords

Chemotherapy, children, Nursing, quality of care

Authors

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Salah

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Affiliation

Pediatric nursing department, faculty of nursing, sohag university, sohag city, Egyt

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marw.salah24@gmail.com

City

Sohag

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First Name

Manal

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

mohamed

Affiliation

Assist.Prof of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, egypt

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manal_ayed@yahoo.com

City

sohag

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First Name

Sabra

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

pediatric nursing, faculty of nursing , sohag, egypt

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drsabramohamed734@gmail.com

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sohag

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Volume

3

Article Issue

5

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48039

Issue Date

2024-07-01

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2024-05-25

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2024-07-01

Page Start

34

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43

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2974-3206

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2974-3214

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362,435

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2,546

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Sohag Journal of Nursing Science

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https://sjns.journals.ekb.eg/

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Quality of Nursing Care Provided to Children Undergoing Chemotherapy

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29 Dec 2024