What are some nursing interventions for Jehovah witness patient?

Answer 1

This would depend on the medical condition of the patient. Jehovah's Witnesses accept all kinds of medical treatement as long as it does not conflict with what they regard as bible law and principle.

They do not accept blood transfusions but will accept a number of non-blood substitutional procedures, these include:

The loss of blood volume and low oxygen levels are the major reasons doctors transfuse blood. Blood volume levels can be replaced without using whole blood or blood plasma. The simplest is saline (salt) solution, which is both inexpensive and compatible with our blood. There are also fluids with special properties, such as Dextran, Haemaccel, and lactated Ringer's solution and Hetastarch (HES). {Such fluids have definite advantages; they are relatively nontoxic and inexpensive, readily available, can be stored at room temperature, require no compatibility testing and are free of the risk of transfusion-transmitted disease} Physicians can also help their patients to form more red cells by giving them iron-containing preparations (into muscles or veins), which can aid the body in making red cells three to four times faster than normal. Your kidneys produce a hormone called erythropoietin (EPO), which stimulates bone marrow to form red cells. Now, synthetic (recombinant) EPO is available. {Doctors may give this to some anemic patients, helping them to form replacement red cells very quickly.***Cooling a patient to lessen his oxygen needs during surgery*Laser "scalpels"*Hypotensive anesthesia*Therapy to improve coagulation*The heart-lung machine*Desmopressin (DDAVP) to shorten bleeding time. Blood salvaging, Acute normovolemic hemodilution;Hypervolemic hemodilution

**Operations can successfully be performed using combination of the blood expanders and the surgical procedures highlighted above, without the use of blood or blood products}**