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April 15-16, 2019 | Frankfurt, Germany
Oncology Nursing and Cancer Care
16
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International Conference on
Journal of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics | Volume 4
Challenges & pitfalls in nursing and pharmacists training for QOPI ® certification
Anghel Adrian Udrea
Medisprof Cancer Center, Romania
Q
OPI certification is one of the most valuable
quality services accreditations in medical
oncology worldwide. Since 2016 this is available
for practices outside USA. Medisprof Cancer Center
is the 7
th
international practice awarded with
this certificate. Oncology training for nurses and
pharmacists isnotmandatory topractice inRomania.
But they are for QOPI certification. The presentation
will guide the audience through the challenges and
pitfalls of this process described below. First, we had
to motivate the team about the scopes of having
the QOPI certification. The major difficulty being a
medical system that does not care about quality. The
only national reimbursement, mandatory system
for Romanians do not have any procedures in this
regard.Wehad to establish a comprehensive training
program and competency assessment for new staff,
as well as monitoring competency in chemotherapy
administration at regular interval for all nurses. This
included all routes of administration: oral, parenteral,
intravesical, intratecal. Handling of hazardous drugs
education was done by our 2 ESOP certificated
pharmacists and is updated at regular intervals.
EMR (electronic medical record) in Romanian, data
entry system was elaborated by our IT staff. Accurate
data entry by oncology nurses was mandatory in
order to have the traceability of their work with the
patients. Finally, regular auditing in order to verify
that procedures are respected is to be done in order
to maintain quality and certification.
e
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adrianudrea@medisprof.ro