ESHT Blood Transfusion Team
This month, the Oracle has invited the ESHT Blood transfusion team for some resource guide and tips on blood transfusion. Let us meet the team and the awesome work that they do.
Blood Transfusion Team
Sally Richardson Lead transfusion Practitioner, based at Conquest. I qualified as a nurse in 1990 based at the then RESH (Royal East Sussex Hospital) and went to work in Theatres. From there I joined the Royal Navy for 5 years going from Theatre to Coronary Care and undertook the ENB 998 (trainer and assessor course). My interest in training continued ;leaving the Navy completing a Cert Ed & PG Cert to provide training for the Access to Nursing Course and BTEC at Bexhill & Hastings Colleges, maintaining my experience in setting up the BUPA wing attached to Conquest. I was fortunate to be given the opportunity for this post based here at CQ and the beginnings of ensuring ESHT was ‘Blood Transfusion Compliant’ to provide adequate training and the Integrated Care Pathway we now use. National Comparative audits are carried out by the team as well as compliances with MHRA and NICE guidance’s. We take part and facilitate Massive Haemorrhage Sims, offer Lab tours and support Harvey’s Gang to enable children to become a BMS (Biomedical Scientist) look around the lab follow their ’blood sample’ which has been so well received by parents and staff!
What I enjoy about the role is every day is different to support and encourage good practice, occasionally thinking outside the box! The last few years with the release of the Blood Inquiry and the Pathology Network merger, EPMA and EPR have offered some head scratching, but the team has enjoyed being able to teach back in the classroom and not just via Teams. Being accessible is important and to ensure we can support staff during the whole transfusion process.
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