Introduction:

With the step of the years, the infirmary profession has won land in different areas of the medicine and its action has arrived to spheres that it was believed they were exclusive of other professionals of the sector of the health, as the Medicine Transfusional and cellular Therapy.

Objective:

to describe the nursing functions in the aphaeresis procedures.

Analysis and synthesis of the information:

The infirmary work is based on the application of the methodology for the implementation of the cares that he/she carries out. The direct exchange with the patient allows to identify its necessities, as well as it facilitates to drift, to control, to execute and to evaluate the activities that are carried out in the daily practice. Inside the area of the transfusion medicine working of infirmary is fundamental, since it can intervene in different phases of the process of the donation of blood, he/she carries out the centrifugation of the component to obtain, it transfuses or it implants sanguine components and he/she assists the patient's adverse reactions.

Conclusions:

The nurse action in the aphaeresis activity for different procedures is primordial to preserve the donor's health and the patient, as well as in the creation or modification of work protocols with bigger efficiency, effectiveness and effectiveness based on the knowledge and the experience in this field what generates a hairspring of continuous development that he/she forces to the constant bring up to date in the topic.

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