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Abstract

Background and Objectives

Blood transfusions and blood products are used in infants for treatment and it needs to meet the high standards of nursing care before, during and after the procedure. Therefore, investigating how nurses and other health care providers implement Haemovigilance can shed light on the various aspects of the program failures or faults. The aim of this study was to audit nursing care regarding Haemovigilance in different wards of Mofid Hospital in 2014.

Materials and Methods

A descriptive study of 132 cases in which nursing care for infants in relation to Haemovigilance were observed and evaluated. Event sampling method was applied and the 3-phase checklist was used in which “blood order”, "transfusion procedure" and "documentation" were addressed. To analyze the data, the descriptive statistics using SPSS was used.

Results

Compliance with Haemovigilance in all areas of research in infant and neonatal intensive care units in connection with “Request” phase is 68% in relation to “transfusion” phase is 63.7%, and for “documentation” phase 76.6%. The total score in all areas of the present study was 59.6%.

Conclusions

Nursing care associated with Haemovigilance was assessed to be 65.8% indicating the gap between the practice and the standards. It could be attributed to the training inadequacy and the audit insufficiency.