Karahan Azize, Isik Sevcan Avcı, Kav Sultan, Abbasoglu Aysel
Department of Nursing, Baskent University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.
Asia Pac J Oncol Nurs. 2015 Oct-Dec;2(4):271-275. doi: 10.4103/2347-5625.164998.
The aim of this study was to determine oncology nurses awareness of drug interactions.
This descriptive study was conducted with nurses working in the oncology clinics who are a member of Oncology Nursing Association of Turkey. A total of 115 nurses (response rate %20) were responded to the online survey that consists of 28 questions.
The mean age of the nurses was 33 ± 6.8. The majority of nurses work in university hospital (60%) as a clinical nurse (62.6%) and have a Bachelor Degree in Nursing (63.5%). The mean working years in oncology was 4 years. Half of them stated receiving information on drug interactions mostly through in-service education and courses/congresses in last 5 years. The majority of them (84.3%) indicated that they are considering the possibility of drug interactions when they are scheduling the medication administration time. More than half of the responders (59.1%) encountered drug interactions; however, few explored drug interactions with food, drinks, and nutritional supplements. Their practices to assess possibility of drug interactions were reviewing the drug prospectus (78.3%); consulting with their colleagues (58.3%) and searching on the available website (42.6%) and looking at the drug interaction (39.1%). More than half (65.2%) stated lack of any system to identify drug interactions in their workplace. Nearly half of them indicated to including the drug interaction into patient education mostly for food-drug (73.9%) and drug-drug (63.5%) interactions.
Almost all indicated the needs for further education on drug interactions and suggested to have guideline/packet guide.
本研究旨在确定肿瘤护理人员对药物相互作用的认知情况。
本描述性研究针对土耳其肿瘤护理协会成员中在肿瘤门诊工作的护士开展。共有115名护士（回复率20%）对包含28个问题的在线调查做出了回应。
护士的平均年龄为33±6.8岁。大多数护士在大学医院工作（60%），担任临床护士（62.6%），拥有护理学学士学位（63.5%）。在肿瘤领域的平均工作年限为4年。其中一半表示在过去5年中主要通过在职教育以及课程/学术会议获取有关药物相互作用的信息。大多数人（84.3%）表示在安排用药时间时会考虑药物相互作用的可能性。超过一半的受访者（59.1%）遇到过药物相互作用的情况；然而，很少有人探究药物与食物、饮料及营养补充剂之间的相互作用。他们评估药物相互作用可能性的做法包括查阅药品说明书（78.
