Safe Handling of Oral Chemotherapy on Medical-Surgical Units

ABSTRACT

Program As part of the plan stage of the PDSA model (Institute for Healthcare Improvement [IHI], n.d.), a unit-based nurse specialist and a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) assessed staff comfort with oral chemotherapy, identification, and safe handing processes by implementing a tip sheet and precaution signage on the project units. Because of inexperience with oral chemotherapy, staff indicated quarterly oral chemotherapy safety tips would be helpful. All efforts were made to conserve PPE, and priority shifted at the project site to developing crisis capacity guidelines by the organization at large. [...]project limitations were in part due to time constraints. [...]staff answers were