Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care (SJNHC)
Volume-1 | Issue-03 | 184-189
Original Research Article
Practice of Blood Transfusion among Nurses in Public Tertiary Care Hospitals Lahore
Adila Mastoor, Ms. Naseem Rooman, Afsar Ali, Ms. Dilnasheen Safdar
Published : July 30, 2018
Abstract
From the above medical crises it is strictly order to for the first fifteen minutes
of the blood transfusion the nurse should stay with the patient to closely monitored c for
any signs of adverse effects (Allan & and Bates 2004). The main purpose of the study is to
assess the practices of blood transfusion among clinical nurses at a public tertiary care
hospital Lahore. In this study across sectional descriptive design was used. The study was
conducted at Mayo hospital at all the critical and other inpatients areas. A questionnaire
adapted from thesis of Ebenezer tetteh (2015) “Knowledge and practice of blood
transfusion among nurses in Ghana: experiences from the cape coast teaching hospital, this
questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondent. Questionnaire consists of 2
parts first focusing on demo-graphic data of participant and second is lekert scale
questionnaire which is based on practice data. Analysis of variables was done on SPSS
21. The overall practice results shown in the above table and graph reveals that there were
no participants in the poor practice category. 63.56% of the participants had moderate
practices having score of practice between 45 and 80 on a maximum score of 108. 36.44%
of the study participants had good practices and scored above 80 score on a maximum of
108 practice total score. Majority of the participants was having moderate practices of
Blood transfusion but there were no as such poor practices.