[Competences of professional nurses in transfusion: medico-legal aspects]

This paper explains the regulations in force in our Country about the competences of the nurse during the blood transfusion and the blood astraction. Successively it underlines how it is important for the nurse to be conscious of belonging to a medical team, considering also the ethical point of view suggested, by the care activity, to all the operators. Finally the paper notices the independence of the nurse's work compared with the other medical professional figures, and the following liabilities. It points out especially the role of the nurse in handling the information and the consent for the operating action, to the entrusted patient.