NURSING CARE AND NEONATAL SCREENING
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v7i1.32555Keywords:
Neonatal screening, Quality control, Education nursing continuing, Neonatal nursing, Malpractice.Abstract
This paper deals with a study undertaken at the Paraná Neonatal Screening Reference Service (FEPE), the aim of which was identifying the level of inadequate blood samples received by the FEPE laboratory for testing from January to December 2002. A study was made of the FEPE Laboratory’s internal medical records and 222,366 tests were examined, of which we identified 2,787 as needing to be repeated due to mistakes made during sample collection. The criteria used for classification were as follows: blood transfusion, insufficient, haemolysed, old, excess, contaminated and dried blood. Based on the data obtained and analysed, we were able to determine that the greatest amount of errors relate to insufficient and old blood, indicating difficulties in carrying out the collection technique, which may relate to: the lack of technical and scientific knowledge and the undervaluing of the importance of the test, the replacement of trained staff by untrained staff and the significant delay in sending the blood samples to the laboratory, emphasising the lack of awareness as to the test’s importance.
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