A number of postgraduate students of the Pediatric Nursing Branch at the College of Nursing have organized a field visit to the Center for Hereditary Blood Diseases at Al-Karama Teaching Hospital, accompanied and supervised by their teaching staff. The visit aimed to identify hereditary blood diseases among children and the role of the nurse in caring patients who suffer from these symptoms.
The visit included accompanying the children during the clinical examination, as well as knowing the steps of the blood transfusion procedure in terms of matching the blood type and ensuring the correct data and the amount of blood dose given, noting the side effects during and after the blood transfusion procedure. The visit also included a detailed explanation by the nursing affairs officer at the center about the procedures for receiving sick children with Mediterranean anemia (thalassemia) from the beginning of admission to the center and even after completing blood transfusion and how to provide a nursing care for side effects during blood transfusion. At the end of the visit, the faculty members and students expressed their thanks and appreciation to the center’s staff, including nurses and physicians, for their reception and cooperation in providing information about genetic blood diseases among children and how to deal with them.