Tracy Levitt
Transfusion Admin Assistant and Trainer. I am based at Conquest and work part time Tuesday to Thurs, I have worked for the Trust for 23 years and joined the Transfusion Team in April 2022. Although employed as an admin assistant when I first joined there was no TP at Eastbourne, so, to assist Sally, I started to teach the HCA mandatory training sessions. When Claire joined, I enjoyed taking the sessions so much I continued to facilitate the Teams sessions and the classroom training at CQ. Part of our role involves training, both induction and mandatory, for all levels of practitioners. Induction is always face to face to ensure new staff are aware of transfusion practice, local protocols and create usernames and passwords for our electronic system for removing components from blood bank. Doctor’s training is via Teams which Sally facilitates approximately every three weeks at midday. Content includes sampling, documentation, administration of blood products, major haemorrhage protocol and Warfarin, DOACs and their antidotes. Registered practitioners and clinical support workers have the option of attending either classroom or Teams training.
Teams appears to be more popular choice as these sessions fill up quickly – though that may just be because we do fewer of them. As trainers the classroom sessions are preferable as it is easier to be interactive and read the body language of the staff. Content includes sampling, collection process, administration of blood products (for registered practitioners), documentation and Major Haemorrhage. We also emphasise that staff should be able to collect blood products from blood bank, all registered practitioners and clinical support workers have a username and password for logging onto Blood360 – do you know yours? Please contact one of the team if not. Mandatory training is an annual update, we do recommend attending one of the classroom or Teams sessions as we highlight any incidents that have occurred during the last year and measures taken to prevent any reoccurrence; however, on alternate years it is possible to do the e-learning on MYLearn instead.
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