NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 61: Blood and Blood Product Administration: Verification, Transfusion Reactions, and What to Do First

Sarah Mitchell lays out the transfusion checklist: consent, type and crossmatch, an 18 to 20 gauge IV, saline only, filter tubing, and the two-nurse bedside verification, then the timing rules of a slow start, 15 minutes at the bedside, and completion within 4 hours. She walks through acute hemolytic, febrile, allergic, anaphylactic, TRALI, TACO, and bacterial reactions, the indications for each blood product, refusal, warmers, massive transfusion, and delayed reactions. Scenarios cover a fever at 20 minutes and circulatory overload.

Lesson 61 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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