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2014

Nursing

DNP Projects

Blood conservation

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Evidence-Based Blood Conservation Education For Icu Nurses: A Pre And Post-Test Evaluation Of Nursing Knowledge, Stefanie M. Bull Jan 2014

Evidence-Based Blood Conservation Education For Icu Nurses: A Pre And Post-Test Evaluation Of Nursing Knowledge, Stefanie M. Bull

DNP Projects

Purpose: The purpose of this evidence-based education project was (i) to evaluate baseline nursing knowledge of anemia, blood conservation and transfusion medicine, (ii) to identify current blood conservation practice and the nurse’s prior exposure to blood conservation education (iii) to determine the potential impact of evidence-based education on nursing knowledge, and (iv) to determine the impact of education on the nurse’s attitudes towards future implementation of blood conservation practices based on the nurse’s self report.

Setting: The project was implemented in the Cardiovascular and Thoracic ICU (CVICU) at an 875-bed level-1 Trauma and Multi-Organ Transplant Center located in central Kentucky. …