Designing and evaluating the effectiveness of a serious game for safe administration of blood transfusion: A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Preparing nursing students for the knowledge and skills required for the administration and monitoring of blood components is crucial for entry into clinical practice. Serious games create opportunities to develop this competency, which can be used as a self-directed learning strategy to complement existing didactic learning and simulation-based strategies.

Aim: To describe the development and evaluation of a serious game to improve nursing students' knowledge, confidence, and performance in blood transfusion.