In your facility, who is permitted to record vitals signs during a transfusion?  RN must record initial and 15 minutes (along with remaining with patients). Any vital signs recorded after those time frames my facility wants to utilize nurse's aides and nurse interns (hired for summer not completed in nursing school). Question arose in regards to recognizing adverse effects to transfusion. Thank you. 

My opinion:  Why are we recording vital signs?  The person recording them has to be able to interpret them in regards to the transfusion taking place.  They must be trained to recognize changes that are indicative of a reaction regardless if they are an RN or not.

In our hospital, if the vitals are documented on paper (ER or OR), it doesn't have to be a nurse.  If they are documented in TAR (everyone else), a nurse has to document vitals.