Introducing the new ‘Pack Check’
After calls from clinicians and educators across the country for just-in-time resources to support teaching the double independent blood pack check, Pack Check has been comprehensively revised, reworked, and rewritten to meet these needs.
The revised version provides consistent educational content that reinforces the fundamental principles of safe and accurate blood pack checking through a practical, hands-on, back-to-basics approach.
It’s been designed for transfusion practitioners, educators, blood champions and all other healthcare professionals involved in teaching blood pack checking. The Pack Check supports transfusion education by building educator knowledge and providing an interactive, tangible, simulation-based learning experience.
What's inside?
The learning package is divided into three components:
Part 1: Train-the-trainer is a foundational module that makes sure those providing transfusion education have the knowledge and confidence to deliver accurate and consistent teaching sessions. It includes:
- positive patient identification
- the difference between the blood pack label and compatibility label
- what details must be confirmed during the pack check
- what is a double-independent check
- short animation video, and
- three interactives to support different styles of teaching and/or learning.
Part 2: Teaching resources including a downloadable PowerPoint presentation with teaching notes, discussion points and links to interactives plus a Q&A quiz.
Part 3: Build your own simulation kit that’s designed to provide a hands-on experience where learners can practice a double independent check in a controlled simulated environment using blood pack labelling and documentation they are familiar with. The toolkit includes:
- eight compatibility label styles
- three prescription options, two paper and one electronic medical record example
- two compatibility reports
- a checklist, and
- audit questions.
Pack Check is a practical and engaging tool that promotes learner participation while reinforcing the principles of safe blood pack checking.