Blood Management Awareness Week Evaluation
 

Thank you for participating in the 1st Blood Management Awareness Week in 2007. This year's event, November 3-7, 2008, will be even better because of the feedback that we have received from all of last year's participants.

Below is all of the feedback that was received. If you have not submitted an evaluation, please click here to complete the online evaluation form.

We look forward to your participation in this year's Blood Management Awareness Week.

2007 General Comments

• I thought the flyers were very colorful, eye-catching and informative!!
• The PowerPoint was also very well done, but I was unable to use it since the computer would require staff to monitor it.
• Great idea to promote blood management
• Thanks for all your hard work. I have been recommending our Organization to everyone!
• Hospital Administrators, Directors of Lab and Blood Bank were positive about having this week. I believe that it will be a bigger success as we continue to promote this each year.
• Thank you! It's an uphill battle but every bit of help “helps.”
• We're proud to be part of the SABM team and our program continues to move forward. Thanks!
• Wasn't able to get more organizations involved. I contacted the magazine "Advance for Nurses" and told them about the event. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any  money in the budget this year for artwork, printing, etc.
• I believe this is a great start. I thank you for the tools and ideas to incorporate at our different programs and hospitals.
• We found that saturating the institution with information on blood management over 2-3 days got the staff talking about blood management amongst their peers. Some units were actually anticipating our arrival and were anxious to hear the information first-hand.
• I have had many people tell me about their anemia; so this is really encouraging that we are addressing a real concern for people.  
• It was fun to chat with people and give them information.
• It helped me with convincing the whole hospital medical staff to start a blood conservation program.
• One of the highlights for me was the vendor support. Also received support from two blood centers; one provided a display and giveaways and one of the medical directors offered to do a grand rounds on "transfusion triggers". Unfortunately, there was not enough time to organize his lecture but we have already booked him for next year. The Laboratory, Blood Bank, Nursing, Nutrition Departments and Administration lent support and participation. I eagerly look forward to next year as it can only get bigger and better.
• It was a fun week.
• Great idea to bring awareness of blood management to the hospital and public.
• I really liked having the questions for a person to ask when they are at their doctor's office to address this area. The public seem to respond well with this. I also liked how the flyer was put together with tips and strategies. It was very concise and filled with lots of good information.
• In our institution, although for the past 15 years I have been making noise on blood transfusion risks and blood conservation techniques; it is only now that other clinicians and the hospital administration have seen the significance of blood conservation and avoidance. I am a lone advocate.

2007 Event Comments

Stacy Welch & Richard Melseth
Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
Mesa, AZ
What did you do?

• public poster displayed at hospital main entrance with SABM Patient Information brochures
• poster displayed for employees in cafeteria along with additional handouts

What tools did you use?

• posters
• SABM Patient Information brochures
• hospital flyers

How did your event turn out?

• well-attended, always someone at table inquiring; requests from nursing educators for more information

Carol Vannoy, RN
Thomasville Medical Center – Novant Health
Thomasville, NC
What did you do?

• made poster boards and displayed them in the hospital
• sent each physician a copy of the Professional flyer
• gave out copies of SABM's "A Patient's Guide to Blood Management Options"
• program magnets handed out

What tools did you use?

• SABM poster
• Professional flyer
• Patient's Guide brochure

How did your event turn out?

• "Low-Key" introduction to the week for our first year

Donna Berta
London Health Sciences Centre (LHCS)
London, Ontario, Canada
What did you do?

• "E-cast" blood management message circulated throughout LHSC
• poster in main lobby, with smaller version in patient care staff lounge areas

What tools did you use?

• posters

How did your event turn out?

• well received

Jan Ray
Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center
Center for Bloodless Medicine & Surgery
Chicago, IL
What did you do?

• invited Kevin Wright, Program Manager, at Rhode Island Hospital to lecture on Bloodless Medicine and Surgery-Expanding Treatment Options

What tools did you use?

• tools from SABM
• Used poster board size flyers at the main lobbies of our medical center. Gave audience a copy of each at our celebration.

How did your event turn out?

• Very good, a capacity filled auditorium!

Deborah H. Riddick
Forest Hills Hospital – North Shore LIJ
Forest Hills, NY
What did you do?

• used posters to announce week
• sponsored lecture: “Blood Management for Medical Staff”
• "LUNCH and LEARN" for all other staff

What tools did you use?

• posters
• PowerPoint Presentations

How did your event turn out?

• Turned out well. Would like to see more attendance next year

Jerry W. Montgomery
Valley Hospital Medical Center
Las Vegas, NV
What did you do?

• utilized the signage for advertizing the week
• distributed flyers to all departments
• arranged for Jo Valenti through the SABM Speakers Bureau to give a presentation on Thursday, November 8 at all Valley Health System facilities
• the brochures for the public in both English and Spanish were distributed to the four facilities
• Marketing Department placed a news article in the Physician and Hospital newsletters

What tools did you use?

• signage
• brochures
• flyers announcing the presentations

How did your event turn out?

• the attendance at all facilities was very good, with an average of around 30

Richard Casas
Anaheim Memorial Medical Center
Anaheim, CA
What did you do?

• sent email with link to the PowerPoint presentation at SABM website
• went to all the nurses stations and verbally pointed out it was Blood Management Awareness week

What tools did you use?

• posted 11x17 flyers in front lobby of main hospital entrance, doctors lounge, and medical staff office
• flyers for staff were left in all nurse lounges and on bulletin boards

How did your event turn out?

• it was well received
• One nurse commented: "This is good because many people think that blood management is for Jehovah's Witnesses only."

Bob W. Broomer
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
What did you do?

• utilized the SABM flyers with a nice letter of appreciation to all the main doctors who work with our program
• advertised total number of patients who avoided getting blood transfusions
• sent "goody bags" to all our HUC's on each floor of the hospital, including the SABM awareness flyer

What tools did you use?

• SABM awareness flyers

How did your event turn out?

• all went well and the doctors and staff appreciated the information
  

Heather Mingo
QEII Health Sciences Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
What did you do?

• displayed posters
• lunch and learn presentation

What tools did you use?

• public and healthcare posters

How did your event turn out?

• approx 40 people plus had 5 telehealth sites
  

Mary Anne Rouch
Presbyterian Hospital of Plano
Plano, TX
What did you do?

• poster on easel in lobby all week
• Placed tent cards on tables in cafeteria & nursing stations
• set up table Wednesday outside cafeteria from 10-2p with cell saver setup and tech available for demo and Q&A
• printed info on anemia and iron deficiency
• Key chains and candy give-a-ways
• posters, stickers, ad on Intranet website, ad on digital televisions across the system (13 hospitals)
• press release and interview by local paper
• Follow up picture taking session Wednesday by cell saver with tech. Story in Plano Star Courier and pitched to Dallas medical investigators; John Hammerly, MD from KDFW-TV, Fox & Janet St. James, MD, for WFAA Channel 8. (bigger story now)

What tools did you use?

• Blood Management poster, tent cards and bookmark
• SABM tool kit
• Haemonetics info on cell salvaging

How did your event turn out?

• Very well! Many interested nurses and public.

Mario Luis Tejerina Valle
Clinica Del Sur La Paz Bolivia
Bolivia
What did you do?

• conference

What tools did you use?

• PowerPoint presentation
• DVD

Ann Cook, RN
ONTraC Blood Conservation Coordinator
Sault Area Hospital
Ontario, Canada
What did you do?

• did a poster presentation on our education boards, on both of our sites as well as one on my office door
• did an email announcement complete with an attachment poster that explained what and why Blood Conservation is important

What tools did you use?

• this year used information posters
• next year will incorporate handouts and quiz

How did your event turn out?

• low key this year
• next year plan to correlate to blood safety and blood bank; do a display with quiz and a draw to bring more attention to the program

Susan Kenny
Health Sciences Centre
WRHA Perioperative Blood Conservation Program
Winnipeg, Canada
What did you do?

• Lunch & Learn Session with displays on the Monday
• Displays with information and celebration cake at each hospital in the region (6 hospitals) - each day at a different site.
• Located information in a high profile area of each hospital

What tools did you use?

• SABM posters

How did your event turn out?

• Very well

Elizabeth Crum, RN
Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, NJ
What did you do?

• hand delivered flyers to every patient care unit in the hospital, and gave an informal in-service to each unit about blood management and its importance
• all managers were asked to review the contents of the flyer with the staff who were not present for the in-service
• sent flyers to all off-site patient care units
• posted flyers in the Physicians Lounge and surgical locker rooms
• put a piece about Blood Management Awareness Week in the daily communication bulletin which is presented to all staff in every department of Hackensack University Medical Center on every shift
• topic was also reviewed at the monthly medical center Management Meeting
• the SABM press release was edited somewhat to include blood management initiatives at Hackensack University Medical Center, and was published in the Paramus Press, a local newspaper

What tools did you use?

• SABM flyer
• SABM press release

How did your event turn out?

• I think we publicized the week well, and it gave us an opportunity to emphasize the importance of blood management to all staff throughout the medical center.
• The informal in-services gave staff an opportunity to ask questions about our programs that they may have not otherwise thought to ask.
• I think the event was more successful at our institution than we had hoped.
  

Jessica Verisco
St. Joseph Medical Center
Houston, TX
What did you do?

• Monday
• Transplant recipient & doctor available for interviews
• Ask the expert: What is Blood Management?
• Demo of micro blood draws
• Tuesday
• Iron & Anemia Management - Meet clinical iron specialist-take a nursing survey of iron knowledge, dietary consults
• Wednesday
• Blood Management Devices: Tissuelink & Holmium Lazer demos
• Thursday
• Cell salvage demo-How we save blood in the OR
• Friday
• Blood Substitutes or Artificial Blood-What's going on?
• ESAs- Where do we stand?

What tools did you use?

• video
• posters with smaller handout
• PowerPoint continuously scrolling

How did your event turn out?

• I probably interacted with between 50-100 people everyday.
• Also, I had many compliments on my “booth” or table presentation.
• I ordered cases of apples, chocolate covered strawberries, and boxes of raisins (“raising” awareness for blood management week) which attracted people to the booth.

Jo Valenti, Director of Blood Conservation
Kennedy Health System
Stratford, NJ
What did you do?

• made 150 copies of the 8-1/2 x 11 healthcare worker poster 
• each of the three campuses got posters that they posted on all of the nursing units, and in other areas such as the dictation rooms, break rooms and physician lounges  
• set up a table and manned it for three hours on each campus
• had both the public and healthcare worker posters in poster size on easels for the table display 
• used our own blood conservation brochures along with my business cards and a free keychain as handouts

What tools did you use?

• posters

How did your event turn out?

• the response was great; gave my program visibility and educated both the public and staff

Sharon Sledge
Bloodless Medicine & Surgery
Elizabeth, NJ
What did you do?

• the Public Relations Department bought into the idea immediately and a press release was sent out
• information was placed on our hospital webpage with a link to SABM and activities scheduled for the week
• a large display was done in the lobby window outside the president's office
• free anemia/Hgb screenings were done and information on blood management were given out the entire week 
• letter-size public poster was given as part of the handouts
• 22x28 posters (professional and public) were in the lobby and Physician's conference room
• 11x14 professional posters were placed on every nursing unit in the MD dictation areas
• I partnered with one of our hematologists and collaborated on a free public seminar on sickle cell anemia that was well attended. I was able to incorporate the public PowerPoint presentation into our lecture.

What tools did you use?

• BMAW tool kit

How did your event turn out?

• the audience really appreciated the events

Denise C. Howard
Carolinas Medical Center Blood Management Program
Charlotte, NC
What did you do?

• Lunch and learns with the Jehovah's Witness Elders
• Held a Blood Management equipment vendor demonstration fair
• Displayed facility specific poster

What tools did you use?

• posters
• SABM patient information

How did your event turn out?

• Well received. Employees, MD and visitors came to vendor’s demonstration. Stimulated a lot of questions

Kevin T. Wright
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, RI
What did you do?

• designed a full display and information in the main hospital area
• displayed posters at all nursing units and various physician offices

What tools did you use?

• SABM posters
• internal posters

How did your event turn out?

• Numerous positive comments and continued support of blood management protocols.

Elora Thorpe
St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
Kansas City, MO
What did you do?

• Developed a theme for the week which was "Keep me in Circulation"
• This featured a friendly little blood drop as our mascot and he recites this mantra on all stickers, posters, magnets and bookmarks.
• We used the bookmarks for all patient trays so that each day a bookmark talking about blood management came up on the tray of patients and told them to ask their nurse what their hemoglobin is for the day. The bookmarks also gave them the signs and symptoms of anemia along with 3 questions to ask their physician. We also shared the bookmarks with the staff.
• The magnets that said "every drop makes a difference" were placed in all the nurse servers and on anything metal on all floors like refrigerators, etc.
• All staff each day got a visit from nurses in blood management and they each got a sticker along with a crossword puzzle that we developed for blood management along with blood management jeopardy board with questions that we would ask on the floors. There were small prizes for correct answers.
• Had children that dressed as little red blood cells and handed out red M&M’s (that represented red blood cells that were good) and Craisins (that represented bad red blood cells). These came as a snack for everyone with the visits. We answered their questions regarding blood management on every floor for the hospital.

What tools did you use?

• magnets
• bookmarks
• posters
• one-on-one interaction

How did your event turn out?

• It was hit! Everyone that week knew what Blood Management was.

Yvette Bunch
Spartanburg Regional Health Care System
Spartanburg, SC
What did you do?

• surgical grand rounds
• nursing grand rounds
• event covered in hospital newsletter
• provided lunch for Blood Bank

What tools did you use?

• PowerPoint presentation

How did your event turn out?

• All turned out well.

Audrey Rae
Guelpg General Hospital
Ontario, Canada
What did you do?

• poster display in the cafeteria

What tools did you use?

• used ideas from SABM poster to create my own
• made up a quiz

How did your event turn out?

• Very well, a lot of people read the poster and completed the quiz. I drew a name for a prize.

Winona Barreto, RN
Saint Agnes Medical Center
What did you do?

• Had an Open House with flyers and Posters for Physicians, Nursing Staff, and Community.
• Also had a CE activity for nursing staff on Iron Deficiency Anemia.
• We also had a blood drive during the week.
• We had a few freebies to promote the program that the staff and public seemed to like.
• We had a Grand Rounds activity for Physicians and Staff, but it ended being cancelled at the last minute by the sponsor of the event.

What tools did you use?

• PowerPoint, English & Spanish flyers on Blood Management

How did your event turn out?:

• Open House was well received by the community.

Angelina A. Gapay, MD
Divine Word Hospital, Tacloban City, Philippines
What did you do?

• I placed the posters which SABM sent, in the lobby of our hospital, in front of the laboratory.
• I announced to the medical staff and lab personnel about the week's celebration on Blood Awareness.

What tools did you use?

• SABM posters and my own poster which I presented during the last SABM meeting in LA (Sept 2007)

How did your event turn out?:

• It was purely information dissemination not only to healthcare givers but to patients as well. Patients and relatives in the waiting area in front of the lab got to read the posters.