Personnel involved in evaluating donors and collecting blood and blood components
9.—(1) A licensee must ensure that the collection of blood or blood components from donors is supervised by a medical practitioner, or a Clinical Nurse Leader, who is physically present at all times while the collection is taking place.
(2) Where the collection of blood or blood components from donors is supervised by a Clinical Nurse Leader, the licensee must additionally ensure that adequate arrangements are made for the prompt activation and provision of medical care.
(3) The licensee must ensure that the medical practitioner or Clinical Nurse Leader (as the case may be) mentioned in paragraph (1) is competent in respect of all of the following matters:
(a)
the screening, selection and counselling of donors;
(b)
the appropriate and timely monitoring and management of donors during the collection of blood and blood components so as to ensure the donors’ safety and welfare;
(c)
the clinical assessment of donors before, during and after the donation of blood and blood components;
(d)
the escalation for appropriate clinical management of incidents adversely affecting donors or any personnel involved in the recruitment and evaluation of donors or the collection of blood and blood components.
(4) In this regulation —
“Clinical Nurse Leader” means an individual who —
(a)
has been a registered nurse for at least 5 years; and
(b)
has at least 5 years of work experience in Singapore in —
(i)
transfusion medicine —
(A)
in relation to the provision of an acute hospital service by a person authorised by a licence to do; or
(B)
in any private hospital licensed under the repealed Act before 26 June 2023, where the private hospital was licensed as a medical hospital, a surgical hospital or both; or
[S 842/2023 wef 18/12/2023]
[S 388/2023 wef 26/06/2023]
(ii)
any other area relevant to the provision of a blood banking service with a licensee;
“registered nurse” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Nurses and Midwives Act 1999.