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Introduction: Nursing professionals play a key role in transfusion safety. The performance of the nursing team is not limited to just administering the blood components, since it has the responsibility to provide assistance free of damage resulting from malpractice, negligence and recklessness. Therefore, these professionals must be aware of good practices related to the production cycle of blood and components, ensuring the quality of processes and products, reducing health risks and ensuring transfusion safety. Objective: Evaluate nurses´knowledge about blood transfusion, exploring the main points of the legislation that addresses the blood cycle, emphasizing mainly the necessary knowledge during the transfusion act. Methodology: This is an exploratory, cross-ssectional, field study, with a quantitative approach, carried out in a reference hospital in urgency and trauma in state of Goiás, with data collection structured through a semi-structured questionnaire, covering the following topics: legislation on the subject, ABO and RH system, collection bag, administration time, immediate and late adverse reaction. Results: The sample consisted of 35 nurses (n), who work in direct assistance to critical patients in the four ICUs of Hospital de Urgências de Goiás: 62.9% claim that they have never participated in continuing education on blood transfusion, 68.6% are unaware of classification of transfusion reactions according to the time of manifestation of the clinical condition. 37.1% had a satisfactory response regarding initiating the transfusion of packed red blood cells according to the percentage of volume loss in hemorrhagic shock. Conclusion:We can conclude that most nurses do not have the necessary knowledge to competently perform the transfusion act, which may compromise patient safety and the quality of the health service. Part of the weaknesses may be related to academic training, since a considerable portion of professionals reported not having taken a course that addressed hemotherapy during graduation. It is hoped that this work can contribute to the knowledge and development of studies on transfussion therapy and that it can serve as a basis for the formulation of evaluation and training of professionals involved in transfusion therapy.
Keywords: Patient safety; Blood transfusion; transfusion process