Resources

The following resources are available through ONS.

• Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs, 2^nd Ed. (2011, M. Polovich, ed.) provides the guidelines and techniques you need to safely handle these medications.
• Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs Online Course Using Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs as the course text provides must know education to anyone working with these agents.
• Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice (3rd ed.) (edited by M. Polovich, J.M. Whitford, & M. Olsen, 2009) details principles of antineoplastic therapy, cancer therapy goals and response, administration, side effects, complications, and more.
• ONS Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Course is a live course held across the United States that provides a comprehensive overview of these agents and includes information on newly approved drugs.
• Treatment Basics: Antineoplastic Therapy in the Non-Oncology Setting is a live course held by select ONS Chemotherapy and Biotherapy course educators, which discusses the use of chemotherapy in settings outside of oncology.

Resources available from sources outside of ONS.

• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ “ASHP Guidelines on Handling Hazardous Drugs” (2006)
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s “Preventing Occupational  Exposure to Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings (2004)
• OSHA Technical Manual Chapter on Controlling Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Drugs.