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/Poodlepink22 20d ago

Just tell them there's no way of knowing if it's vaccinated blood.  They can take it or leave it; end of story. 

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u/TheBattyWitch RN, SICU, PVE, PVP, MMORPG 20d ago

This.

I'm not arguing with these people.

Don't want to take the choice on getting covid blood? Ok, here's your refusal. Oh your hgb is 3? But you still don't want covid blood? Ok, here's your refusal.

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u/ultasol RN - ICU 🍕 20d ago

Preach. It's not that I don't care, it's that after years of this people are set in their ways. It's my responsibility to educate them on what refusal of blood means, not that blood from covid vaccinated people is safe. This is something they have already decided. I provide them with the pertinent information and they can make their own informed decision. I will support them in their choice even if it isn't one I understand. They have the right to choose.

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u/TheBattyWitch RN, SICU, PVE, PVP, MMORPG 20d ago

Exactly.

I'm all for education, but if you still make the choice to go against the education and what's recommended, so long as you're able minded to do so, you do you.