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Abstract
Background: The administration of chemotherapy is a high-risk practice which entails numerous risk factors with a high error index. The safe and standard handling of antineoplastic drugs can reduce the effects of occupational exposure and promote safe behaviors in nurses. Thus, the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of chemotherapy safety standard guidelines on oncology nurses’ knowledge, and practice. Methods: A quasi-experimental design one-group pretest posttest was utilized. Sample/Setting: A convenient sample of all available nurses working in Sabha oncology centers Libya who met inclusion criteria was selected. Study tools: The data were collected by using a demographic data form and nurses ’knowledge assessment questionnaire regarding the standard guidelines for working with antineoplastic drugs, and a standard checklist for examining their skills in this regard. The date analyzed by descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (t-test) and Pearson’s correlation coefficient) in SPSS 26. Results: the study revealed that, there were high statistically significant differences regarding nurses’ knowledge and practice mean scores were found between the pre-test, and post-test (34.61±7.42,47.83±2.22 for knowledge, & 23.00±17.5029.00±26.22for practice) respectively, where P values of Wilcoxon test P = 0.000. Conclusions: A significant improvement in nurses’ knowledge and practice was found after implementation of the teaching program which supported the study hypotheses.