A cognition and demand survey on chemotherapeutic self-protection knowledge among junior college and college nursing students before starting their internship in a tumor hopspital from Sichuan province

Abstract

Objective To investigate the situation of cognition and demand for the chemotherapeutic self-protection knowledge among junior college and college nursing students before starting their internship.Methods To design questionnaire according to the U.S.Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations on the usage and protection requirements of anti-tumor drag,and to conduct a questionnaire survey of 192 junior college and college nursing students in our hospital before starting their internship.Results Before starting their internship,the students were lack of the chemotherapeutic selfprotection knowledge generally.There were significant differences between junior college nursing students and college nursing students in the situation of cognition and demand for chemotherapy contamination,in chemotherapy waste disposal methods,as well as ways to get chemotherapeutic self-protection knowledge (x2 =25.608,27.587,50.718,53.251,54.173,66.088 ; P ＜ 0.05).Compared with college nursing students,junior college nursing students had lower cognitive level and higher cognitive demand on pre-chemotherapy self-protection,and gained less knowledge from medical website and magazine.And,there were no significant differences between two groups of nursing students in teaching methods by which they want to gain chemotherapeutic self-protection knowledge (P ＞ 0.05).Condusions Curriculum system and teaching methods for oncology nursing should be improved,and the students should receive a systematic training of chemotherapy protection knowledge,especially junior college nursing students. Key words: Chemotherapy protection; Nursing students; Cognition; Oncology service,hospital