Safe Blood Transfusion Practices among Nurses in a Major Referral Center in Ghana

Table 3

Nurses’ knowledge on patient preparation before blood transfusion.

Question	Correct
	Frequency	Percentage (%)
A nurse should check the availability and patency of an intravenous access line after bringing blood to the ward	59	21.15
Blood collection from the blood bank should take place before the administration of any prescribed premedication(s)	46	16.79
What should be the nurse’s immediate decision on physician’s order of “give one unit of packed cells IV”?	6	2.15
On what issues should the patient be informed before each blood transfusion episode?	68	24.37
When should the baseline vital signs be recorded before initiating the blood transfusion?	233	95.10
Mean score		31.91