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Blood Administration Safety: Nursing Best Practices for Safe Transfusion Care Enduring Module is a recording of the live Regularly Scheduled Series held on July 8, 2026. If you received credit for attending this session during the live meeting, please refrain from claiming credit for this module.
Safe blood product administration is a high-risk clinical process requiring strict adherence to institutional policy, timely recognition of transfusion reactions, and effective implementation of emergency procedures. Staff must maintain competency in routine blood administration as well as rare but critical events such as electronic health record downtime and activation of the Mass Transfusion Protocol (MTP). Ongoing education is necessary to reinforce evidence-based practice, improve patient safety, ensure regulatory compliance, and reduce preventable transfusion-related adverse events.
Target Audience
UK HealthCare Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses
Learning Objectives
After this session, participants will be able to:
- Review blood administration policy at UK HealthCare
- Describe symptoms of a blood transfusion reaction
- Apply IT downtime procedures when administering blood products
- Illustrate the Mass Transfusion Protocol (MTP) process
Course summary
- 1.00 ANCC (UK Healthcare CECentral)
In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.00 nursing contact hour(s).
Brooke Judd, DNP, RN, CCRN is a Clinical Nurse Specialist at UK HealthCare, where she supports critical care and medical-surgical nursing through quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and regulatory initiatives. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Northern Kentucky University and has more than 15 years of critical care nursing experience, including roles as a staff nurse, clinical educator, and adjunct nursing faculty. Dr. Judd has led multiple quality improvement initiatives that have reduced hospital-acquired infections and improved patient safety. Her professional interests include nursing education, implementation science, critical care, and healthcare quality. She has presented her work at national and international nursing conferences and actively serves in nursing leadership, research, and professional governance roles. She maintains CCRN certification through the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Brooke Judd, DNP RN CCRN
Disclosure of Financial Interest Summary to Learners
All planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content are required to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is defined as one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
None of the planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.
The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.
Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
ANCC credit:
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1 nursing contact hour(s).
Available Credit
- 1.00 ANCC (UK Healthcare CECentral)
In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.00 nursing contact hour(s).