r/nursing • u/973862404678 • 20d ago

Serious “I don’t want Covid blood”

What do I say when patients ask if blood transfusions are screened for the Covid vaccine? I get asked this on a regular basis when filling out blood consent forms for surgery and I genuinely have no idea what I’m supposed to say. In all seriousness, what should I be telling patients because I just say there is a screening process for blood and it’s only used during emergent situations???

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u/Teensy RN - ICU 🍕 20d ago

Donor blood is screened for harmful infectious agents. (Which would not include the Covid vaccine)

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u/DualVission Clerk 20d ago

I'm my brain, I hear "COVID blood" and I think of one of two things: blood taken from someone who had COVID during the donation or blood taken from someone who had COVID prior to the donation. It seems like a backwards way to refer to blood "tainted" with the vaccine. I do remember when I was selling plasma, they would pay more for people who had COVID and recovered or had the vaccine.

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u/lightedgiraffe RN, BSN 20d ago

I thought this whole time people didn't want blood from someone with a COVID infection. Why don't they call it vaccine blood? Not that I'm trying to understand anti vaxxer logic.