Renad S AlSubaie, Yousef A Alhamaid, Rahaf S Alali, Musawi A Altaha, Ahad A Aldalbahi, Sayed Ibrahim Ali
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limited structured educational programs available continued professional development radiation oncology nurses study evaluated pilot curriculum focusing clinical workflow toxicity management radiation oncology nurses single universityaffiliated medical center network based previous multiinstitutional needs assessment targeted curriculum clinical workflow toxicity management developed including didactic lectures written diseasespecific toxicity management guidelines standardized medicationlaboratory order preference lists electronic health record anonymized survey circulated participants pre postcurriculum survey composed likerttype subjective questions 11 objective knowledgebased questions kbqs paired likerttype data analyzed using wilcoxon signed ranks test objective question data compared mcnamars mid p test thirteen nurses participated pilot curriculum 100 completed pre post curriculum surveys didactics nurses reported significant increase understanding responsibilities nurse overall process care ability explain computed tomography simulation well ability assess manage grade radiationrelated toxicities p 01 significant improvement percent correct answers objective kbqs baseline 52 80 curriculum p 01 qualitatively 70 913 nurses rated curriculum extremely useful 30 413 quite useful pilot curriculum using combination inperson formal didactics toxicity management guidelines electronic health record based order preference lists wellreceived showed promising results kbq assessment work may used guide development larger curricula nurse onboarding continuing education multicenter setting