Transfusion Medicine Boot Camp for Nurses 2024

Plenary Session 1: Transfusion Guidelines/Blood Administration
Massive Hemorrhage Protocol: Nursing Care in Rural & Tertiary Care Settings
Rural: Tasha Vandervliet, RN, BScN, Clinical Nurse Educator
Selina Fleming, RN, BScN, MN, Clinical Nurse Educator
Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance, Clinton Public Hospital – St. Marys Memorial Hospital – Seaforth
Community Hospital – Stratford General Hospital.
Tertiary Care: Lowyl Notario, RN, MSc, ENC(C), Advanced Practice Nurse, Emergency Department,
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto.

Plenary Session 2: Transfusion Reactions
Hypotensive Transfusion Reactions
Andrew Shih, MD, FRCPC, DRCPSC, HRM MSc, Associate Professor, McMaster University, Regional
Director, Transfusion Medicine, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton.
Nour Alhomsi, BSc, MLT, MBA, Technical Specialist, Transfusion Medicine, Transfusion Safety
Officer, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton.

Concurrent Session 3: (attend one, all will be recorded)
3a: Post Partum Hemorrhage: Pathophysiology/Hemorrhage Control & Patient Care
Heather VanderMeulen, MD, FRCPC, MSc, Hematologist & Transfusion Medicine Specialist,
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto.
Widad Abdulwahab, RN, BScN, MN, Transfusion Safety Advanced Practice Nurse, Sunnybrook
Health Sciences Centre, Toronto.
3b: IV Iron Patient Care/Administration
Kelly Syer, RN, Coordinator, Patient Blood Management Program, Ontario Transfusion Coordinators
(ONTraC), Lakeridge Health, Durham Region.
3c: Blood Administration: Best Practices
Donna Berta, RN, BScN, Clinical Project Coordinator – Nursing, ORBCoN.

Registration opens in October