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Education and training are vital to the provision of a safe blood product, delivered in a timely manner and administered appropriately to the correct patient. Workers will not consistently perform tasks to a high standard unless they not only know what needs to be done, but why a task should be performed in a certain way. Three groups of people require education in order to achieve the highest possible standards of transfusion practice. These are transfusion service staff, hospital staff and the general public (both donors and patients). Educating staff with such a wide range of educational backgrounds and abilities, presents an enormous challenge.
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Harrison, J.F. (2001). Human Resources: Teaching and Training in Transfusion Medicine. In: Sibinga, C.T.S., Cash, J.D. (eds) Transfusion Medicine: Quo Vadis? What Has Been Achieved, What Is to Be Expected. Developments in Hematology and Immunology, vol 36. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1735-1_16
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