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- Title
Evaluation of an educational program for nurses providing cancer symptom management: The pan-Canadian Oncology Symptom Triage and Remote Support Online Tutorial.
- Authors
Stacey, Dawn; Carley, Meg; Davis, Andra
- Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the acceptability of the pan-Canadian Oncology Symptom Triage and Remote Support (COSTaRS) open-access online tutorial and its impact on nurses' knowledge and perceived confidence in symptom management. Methods: Retrospective pre-/post-test evaluation of nurses who completed the tutorial knowledge test and/or acceptability survey. The tutorial was modeled after the previously evaluated in-person workshop to prepare nurses providing cancer symptom management using COSTaRS practice guides. Results: From 2017-2021, 743 nurses completed the knowledge test, and 749 nurses evaluated the tutorial. Mean knowledge score was 4.4/6 and 83% of participants achieved passing scores. Compared to pre-tutorial, nurses improved their perceived confidence in assessing, triaging, guiding patients in self-care (p<0.001), and ability to use the COSTaRS guides (p<0.001). Nurses rated the tutorial as easy to understand (95%), just the right amount of information (92%), providing new information (75%), overall good to excellent (89%), and would recommend it to others (83%). Conclusions: More than 700 nurses accessed the tutorial. After completion, nurses demonstrated good knowledge and improved perceived confidence in cancer symptom management.
- Subjects
NURSING audit; TUMOR treatment; NURSING education; REMOTE access networks; ONCOLOGY nursing; SCHOOL environment; CONFIDENCE; RETROSPECTIVE studies; MEDICAL protocols; PRE-tests &; post-tests; COMPARATIVE studies; CRONBACH'S alpha; QUALITATIVE research; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; INFORMATION resources; RESEARCH funding; TUMORS; DATA analysis software; CONTENT analysis; THEMATIC analysis; CONTINUING education of nurses; EDUCATIONAL outcomes; EMERGENCY nursing; TELENURSING; HEALTH self-care
- Publication
Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal, 2023, Vol 33, Issue 2, p182
- ISSN
1181-912X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5737/23688076332182