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Evaluation of an educational program for nurses providing cancer symptom management: The pan-Canadian Oncology
Dawn Stacey1,2, Meg Carley2, Andra Davis3
1Distinguished University Professor and Senior Scientist, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5, ORCID ID 0000-0002-2681-741X, dstacey@uottawa.ca, (613) 562-5800 ext. 8419.
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.
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