Abstract
Introduction: blood transfusion consists of the administration of blood components intravenously in clinical or surgical treatments. In the preoperative period, it is performed with the objective of improving tissue oxygenation, as well as promoting hemodynamic and hemostatic balance.
 Objective: to understand nursing care in the transfusion of blood components to surgical patients in the perioperative period.
 Method: this is a descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach. Grounded Theory was used, with constant comparative analysis. A total of 18 nurses and 28 nursing technicians from a university hospital took part in the study. Data were collected between October 2019 and February 2020, through a sociodemographic questionnaire and semi-structured interviews.
 Results: the study resulted in the central category nursing care during transfusion, which gave rise to the categories: caring for before transfusion; caring for during transfusion; and caring for after transfusion, which were discussed according to the standardized nursing methodology.
 Conclusion: it was understood that nursing care is planned and implemented following an ordering of practices in a logical sequence due to the characteristics of the procedure in the perioperative period. Nurses demand indirect care; in contrast, nursing technicians engage in direct patient care.
Highlights
Blood transfusion consists of the administration of blood components intravenously in clinical or surgical treatments
Nurses demand indirect care; in contrast, nursing technicians engage in direct patient care
The performance of nursing professionals in hemotherapy, in the transfusion of blood components, is regulated by Resolution no 629/2020 of the Federal Nursing Council (COFEN, as per its Portuguese acronym), which attributes to nurses responsibilities that require complex technical-scientific knowledge and delegates to nursing technicians some attributions under the supervision of nurses [6,7]
Summary
Blood transfusion consists of the administration of blood components intravenously in clinical or surgical treatments. Among health professionals who work in hemotherapy, nurses and nursing technicians perform essential care throughout the process [5]. The performance of nursing professionals in hemotherapy, in the transfusion of blood components, is regulated by Resolution no 629/2020 of the Federal Nursing Council (COFEN, as per its Portuguese acronym), which attributes to nurses responsibilities that require complex technical-scientific knowledge and delegates to nursing technicians some attributions under the supervision of nurses [6,7]. The objective of the study was to understand the nursing care in the transfusion of blood components to surgical patients in the perioperative period
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