Towards safe blood-transfusion practice for nurses: Effectiveness of comic-based learning tool

Abstract

Comic has been used to support education for nurses. This learning approach needs to be explored further because it supports nurses to continue learning during their professional phase. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of comic in supporting the training of safety blood transfusions administration among nurses. The research design is a controlled trial. The respondents are nurses assigned into control and intervention groups. The intervention group received blood transfusion with comic approach and the control group received conventional standard operational procedure. After two weeks, the safety blood transfusion knowledge of the two groups was measured by using a questionnaire. The data was analyzed by using independent t tests. The result shows that there is a significant mean difference in knowledge between the two groups (p value:0.00), thus comic is an effective learning tool to support a safe blood transfusion administration among nurses.