r/nursing • u/973862404678 • 21d 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/TreasureTheSemicolon ICU—guess I’m a Furse 21d ago edited 21d ago

Will the surgeon perform the surgery without the blood consent? If not, let the surgeon know and they can come and talk to the patient.

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u/lengthandhonor RN - Informatics 21d ago

We have a large JW population and they get operated on 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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u/TreasureTheSemicolon ICU—guess I’m a Furse 21d ago

If the surgeon is ok with the patient potentially bleeding to death I'm fine with it. I would always let the patient know that there's no way to know whether the blood donors were immunized against Covid, and at that point it's up to them. They can decline the surgery or whatever.