2023, Vol. 5, Issue 2, Part C

Background: A totally implantable venous access device (TIVAD) is safe, long-lasting, effective, and convenient. The patients can use it for the administration of chemotherapy medications.

Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing guideline (NG) for implanted portal catheters (IPC) in reducing Infections Complications (IC) among chemotherapy patients (CP) at Minia Oncology Center (MOC).

Sample:A purposive sampling of 70 adult patients who connected with portal catheter (PC).

Tools: 2 tools:

First Tool: Patient Health Assessment (PHA) included 2 parts.

First Part: Patient Demographic Data (PDD).

Second Part: Patient's Medical Data.

2^nd Tool: Portal Catheter Infections Complications Observation Checklist.

Results More than half of the intervention group (IG). There was a lower percentage of renal diseases and hypertension among the IG. It was noticed that there was a highly significant correlation between local infection (LI) and the number of chemotherapy sessions per week among IG.

Conclusion: The present finding concludes that adhering to NG was the reason for the IG's lower percentage of IC than the CG's.

Recommendations: To generalize the findings, the current study should be repeated using an additional probability sample for various geographical areas.