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Variable | Frequency | Percentage (%) |
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What is the most important nursing action that the nurse must do with regard to the patient after obtaining the blood pack but before starting the transfusion? | | |
Check the doctors’ order with another nurse | 16 | 5.88 |
Document baseline vital signs | 79 | 29.04 |
Identify the right patient | 169 | 62.13 |
Provide information to the patient (or family) | 4 | 1.47 |
Report high temperature to the doctor | 4 | 1.47 |
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In the ward after obtaining a blood bag, how would you handle blood? | | |
Wrap the unit with a blanket or bed sheet | 24 | 8.86 |
Allow blood to wait in room temperature | 149 | 54.98 |
Immerse the unit in hot water | 1 | 0.37 |
Start the transfusion immediately | 96 | 35.42 |
Warm in a microwave | 1 | 0.37 |
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When is blood warming prior to administration clinically indicated? | | |
Each time a unit of blood is to be transfused | | |
Yes | 45 | 16.13 |
No | 234 | 83.87 |
In exchange transfusion in infants | | |
Yes | 128 | 45.88 |
No | 151 | 54.12 |
In rapid transfusion | | |
Yes | 90 | 32.26 |
No | 189 | 67.74 |
In patients with cold agglutinins | | |
Yes | 110 | 35.84 |
No | 169 | 64.16 |
In patients with hypothermia | | |
Yes | 186 | 66.67 |
No | 93 | 26.33 |
What is the suitable filter size of the blood transfusion set? | | |
90–120 | 74 | 41.34 |
130–160 | 63 | 35.20 |
170–200 | 34 | 18.99 |
210–250 | 8 | 4.47 |
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What are the 3 most important steps that a nurse has to follow in order to properly identify the right patient prior to initiating the transfusion? | | |
Ask the patient to state his/her name when possible | | |
Yes | 124 | 44.44 |
No | 155 | 55.56 |
Call the patient name when possible | | |
Yes | 156 | 55.91 |
No | 123 | 44.08 |
Check the room and bed number | | |
Yes | 39 | 13.98 |
No | 240 | 86.02 |
Ensure that patient identification details match on the blood bag, ID band, and request form | | |
Yes | 252 | 90.33 |
No | 27 | 9.68 |
Ask the patient to state his/her date of birth when possible | | |
Yes | 96 | 34.41 |
No | 183 | 65.59 |
Compare the ID band with the blood bag | | |
Yes | 5 | 1.79 |
No | 274 | 98.21 |
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