The ORBCoN Report

Donna Berta, ORBCoN, Clinical Project Coordinator Nursing Immune Globulin (IG), both intravenous (IVIG) and subcutaneous (SCIG), is an extensively used blood product. To fulfill the Ontario Regional Blood Coordinating Network’s […]

Transfusionist Education and Competency Assessment: Bloody EasyTroy Thompson- ORBCoN Program Manager and Donna Berta- ORBCoN Clinical Project Coordinator The Canadian Transfusion Medicine standards mandate that all individuals performing activities related […]

Donna Berta RN BScN, Clinical Project Coordinator – Nursing, ORBCoN BackgroundORBCoN’s annual educational event, Transfusion Medicine Boot Camp for Nurses, originated in 2018. The intent is to foster transfusion knowledge […]

Donna Berta RN BScN, Clinical Project Coordinator – Nursing, ORBCoN Hemovigilance has been described as surveillance measures spanning the entire transfusion process from blood collection to blood recipient follow-up. Information […]

By Donna Berta RN BScN, Clinical Project Coordinator – Nursing, ORBCoN  Renewal of ORBCoN’s resource Bloody Easy Blood Administration, known as BEBA, is complete! The BEBA Handbook version 3 has been available electronically […]