TY  - JOUR
TI  - Knowing and Use Situations of Hemovigilance System in the Scope of Blood Transfusion Safety of Nurses: Rural Example
AB  - Objective: This study was carried out to determine the nurses'knowledge of the hemovigilance system and their use of it, withinthe scope of blood transfusion safety.Methods: The sample of this descriptive and cross-sectional studyconsisted of all nurses (n=65) working at Gümüşhane State Hospital.The data were collected with “Structured Question Form" Number,percentage, mean, Continuity Correction, Pearson Chi-Square andFisher Exact tests were used to evaluate the data.Results: Of the nurses, 90.8% were women, the average age was27.01±5.16 (20-48) years and 86.1% had undergraduate or highereducation. Of the nurses, 84.6% knew that they were supervised bya hemovigilance nurse. Nurses (43.1%) who received training onthe hemovigilance system had higher levels of knowing that "eachunit of blood taken from the donor follows the final destination(100.0%)" than the nurses who did not receive training (p <0.05).The nurses who knew that they were supervised during transfusionrelated processes performed the following steps at a higherrate than those who did not know that they were inspected (p<0.05): "Wearing gloves before the application (100.0%)”, “usingappropriate branches in children (87.3%)”, “obtaining writtenconsent before blood transfusion (100.0%)”, and “completing theblood transfusion within a maximum of four hours (87.3%)" werehigher than nurses who did not know that they were supervised (p<0.05). Also; the majority of nurses (90.8%) were determined to usethe current procedures for blood transfusions.Conclusion: In line with the findings of the study, it was stated thatthe nurses who were educated about the hemovigilance system andwho knew that they were supervised by the hemovigilance nurse,had high hemovigilance system usage.
AU  - HİNTİSTAN, Sevilay
AU  - demirağ, hatice
DO  - 10.14235/bas.galenos.2020.3667
PY  - 2020
JO  - Bezmiâlem Science
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
SN  - 2148-2373
SP  - 388
EP  - 397
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/459044
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