Authors : Dr. Snehal S.Patil; Sakshi Dhage; Amisha Dhodare; Ketan Dhodare; Raksha Dudhe; Sakshi Durge

Volume/Issue : Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 2 - February

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10776888

Abstract : Introduction Chemotherapy drugs are hazardous to health care fraternity who come into contact of them. Handling of this drugs is high risk process for human as well as for environmental health and therefore it’s required special precautions to follow. It is a main responsibility of nurses to deliver chemotherapy and hence they should well aware and knowledgeable about preparation and administration of chemotherapy while providing attention on safety measures.  Material and Method: 40 undergraduate nursing students were selected by using simple random technique. One group pre test post test designed used and data get collected by using questionnaires on handling of chemotherapy drugs. Reliability , practicability and feasibility of tool assessed by conducting pilot study. Effectiveness of video assisted teaching programme was assessed by using t- test and association of post test knowledge score with selected demographic variables were get found by using one way ANOVA.  Result: Calculated t-value was found to be 10.25 for overall knowledge regarding handling of chemotherapy drugs, which is greater than table ‘t’ value at 0.05 level of significance. Post test knowledge score has shown significant association with selected demographic variable.  Conclusion : The study was concluded that video assisted teaching programme on knowledge about safety measures regarding handling of chemotherapy drugs among undergraduate nursing students from selected colleges of Chandrapur was effective method to improve knowledge regarding safety measures of chemotherapy drugs.