Application of nursing risk management in patients with breast cancer during postoperative chemotherapy / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the application of nursing risk management in the patients with breast cancer during postoperative chemotherapy. Methods Patients with breast cancer during postoperative chemotherapy in our hospital from January to December 2009 were surveyed retrospectively, and analyzed the factors that may cause drug extravasations. Then the appropriate care and risk management measures were implemented by the nursing staff from January to December 2010. Incidence of drug extravasations was compared before and after the implementation of the measures. Results Before the implementation of nursing risk management, the incidence of drug extravasations of the patients with breast cancer of postoperative chemotherapy was 5.77%, the incidence of skin necrosis was 0.64%; after the implementation of nursing risk management,leakage of chemotherapy drugs was 0.59%, no skin necrosis occurs. Conclusions Implementation of nursing risk management can significantly reduce the incidence of chemotherapy drugs leaking in patients with breast cancer during postoperative chemotherapy.