The RCH Blood Management Committee is supported by a specialised team consisting of Haematologists, Transfusion Clinical Nurse Consultants (CNC) and Blood bank Scientists.

This team provides education and training throughout RCH. This can be via face-to-face sessions, orientation workbook information and competencies or external eLearning.

Education is available focusing on all aspects of blood product transfusion. This includes:

• Preparing for the transfusion
  • Transfusion consent, checking for previous transfusion history, sample collection, crossmatching/group and hold process, prescription, requesting blood products from blood bank and transporting blood products
•  Administration of blood products
  • Transfusion equipment, bedside patient and blood product identification process, programming IV devices for transfusion, duration of transfusion, observations, fluid balance recording, compatible fluids and medications
• Transfusion reactions and incidents
  • Recognising, reacting, reporting and documenting transfusion reactions and incidents

To book blood product transfusion education contact the Transfusion CNC on 9345 5281 or page #6562.

The RCH Blood Management Committee supports and promotes BloodSafe eLearning. This program has been federally funded and provides a suit of transfusion courses. Each course completed earns CPD points.

Current courses available are:

• Clinical transfusion practice
• Collecting blood specimens
• Transporting blood products
• Patient blood management
• Critical bleeding
• Perioperative
• Iron deficiency anaemia (also including an app)
• Post partum haemorrhage
• Neonates and Paediatrics
  

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