Oral chemotherapy: a home safety educational framework for healthcare providers, patients, and caregivers. | PSNet

Oral chemotherapy: a home safety educational framework for healthcare providers, patients, and caregivers. | PSNet

Oral chemotherapy: a home safety educational framework for healthcare providers, patients, and caregivers.

Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2020

Prior studies have identified medication errors associated with oral chemotherapy. This article discusses the evidence establishing a foundation for standardizing oral chemotherapy safe-handling education for healthcare providers, patients and caregivers. The authors provide an overview of a safe-handling checklist they developed, which consists of 12 educational components that clinicians or homecare nurses can use to facilitate patient and caregiver education.