Abstract

GARCIA FERNANDEZ, José Ramón  and  LOPEZ BERENGUEL, Francisco. Motivation of health staff in training about chemotherapy treatment. Educ. méd. [online]. 2003, vol.6, n.1, pp.58-62. ISSN 1575-1813.

Introduction: Pharmacological treatment with cytostatic agents is an important part of hospital practice. In community hospitals this activity is specially difficult to develop, by the tendency of the staff to consider this specific of the third level hospitals. Postgraduate continuing education plays a central role in the process, and the motivation to participate in these is also essential. Design and methods: We describe the development of an activity of postgraduate continuing education in a community hospital. The interest of the experience is how motivate health staff in order to participate actively in work out organizated learning with several methods: previous exhaustive information, possibility of participate as teacher, educative and economic advantages,.. . First of all we settled 4 objetives: 1º: attendance of all health staff related, 2º: real increase of knowledge, 3º: acquirement of specific habilities and 4º: that the course must be based on the integral aid of oncologic patient. The objetives were evaluated by: 1º: list of attendance, 2º and 3º: anonymous questionnaire realized before and after the course, and 4º: subjetive appraisal. Results: 53 hospital´s health staff assisted continually to the course, above all nurses, of a "target" population of 456. The objetives propposed were reached respectively in a : 75 %, 50 %, 75 % and 100%. Conclusion: The health staff more motivated in postgraduate continuing education in basic oncology are: postgraduate physicians, nurses and curiously laboratory technicians. Habitual contact with chemotherapy treatments was the most important factor to assist to the course. The methods used in order to motivate the attendance only were successful by the staff motivated "a priori" in the performance the course.

Keywords : Postgraduated continuing education; Chemotherapy.

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