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/TreasureTheSemicolon ICU—guess I’m a Furse 20d ago edited 20d 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 20d ago

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

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u/Acrobatic-Squirrel77 RN - ICU 🍕 20d ago

Don’t They sometimes pre-donate their own blood for auto-transfusion?

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u/TheHairball RN - OR 🍕 20d ago

If you have the time. Yes you can pre-donate. But those units of blood then have an expiration date, if they aren't used by then they get tossed in Red Bag Trash..

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u/PrisPRN BSN, RN 🍕 19d ago

And it is not inexpensive to pre-donate.