Volume 27, Issue 136, June 2023

Blood transfusion knowledge among nurses in Karima: Teaching hospital experience

Manal A Ahmed¹, Rasha Sidahmed El Hissiene Hammed¹, Sara Elsadig Ibrahem Mohamed³, Suheir AM Sayed², Nahla Ahmed Alkhalifa Ali¹, Salwa Ali Mouse Mohamed³

¹Nursing Faculty, Merowe University of Technology, Abdulatif Alhamed, Sudan
²Nursing Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Science, Taif University, KSA
³Nursing College, Jazan University Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: Blood transfusion is a crucial and prevalent medical treatment that involves administering transfused blood and its components to save a patient's life. Objective: To assess blood transfusion knowledge among nurses at karema teaching hospital and determine the factors associated with the knowledge level. Methods: Across-sectional descriptive study was carried out from january to march 2023, involving 53 participants, the chosen participants by using total sampling method. Data collection using questionnaire was entered into SPSS version. Utilizing frequency tables and graphs, analysis was performed. Results: The current study revealed that, most all nurses had diploma degree with 50.9 percent. And that is 38 nurses did not attended a course before about blood transfusion with 71.7. Questions that received high scores were focused, medications that should be given to the patient when complications occur during blood transfusion 100 percent and solution that can be given with Blood 100 percent, where as those the low scored symptoms indicate an allergic reaction 9.4. Only the association between the nurses' knowledge score and years of experience was statistically significant (P =.019). Conclusion: Evaluating the general quality of blood transfusion knowledge across different fields was suboptimal and needed to enhance. Therefore, it is advised that through Nurses' knowledge and skills in this area should be increased through in-service training and courses on blood transfusion.

Keywords: Blood transfusion, Blood transfusion reactions, Blood transfusion safety, Nurses, Knowledge, Training

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e248ms3013

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v27i136/e248ms3013

Published: 05 June 2023