Nurses Malpractices during Blood Samples Withdrawal from Neonates

Abstract

round 60-70% of diagnostic and therapeutic decisions are based on blood tests. Blood tests are the most commonly used diagnostic aids in the care and evaluation of neonates. Collection of blood specimens for various diagnostic investigation is done routinely, the nurse should collect the blood soecimens with proper technique, label it correctly and send to the right labs with dully filled out requisition forms giving all the details (Kyle and Carman, 2017). Several errors occur during the pre-analytic phase (Masotto et al., 2015). Pre-analytical laboratory errors can arise throughout the pre-analytical phase, because this phase comprises a lot of manual activities and accounts for most of the errors encountered within the testing process as a whole. Unsuitable, inappropriate or wrongly handled procedures during collection and handling of specimens are very likely to lead to pre-analytical errors (Cornes et al., 2016).