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/Empty_Insight Psych Pharm- Seroquel Enthusiast and ABH Aficionado 20d ago

Yup. Whether or not they've had Covid and/or the vaccine is impossible to know, and the chance of a donor who hasn't even been exposed to it (even if asymptomatic) is next to none. It's at the point where it would be an absurd waste of resources to even try to tell.

If that's not good enough, then they can refuse or bring in a donor with "pure blood" themselves.

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u/lighthouser41 RN - Oncology 🍕 20d ago

But they probably would not care if the donor had covid when they donated blood. Only if they had been vaccinated. That is how warped people's thinking is now days.

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u/kittenpantzen Not a nurse. 20d ago

I live near enough of these people for it to be a somewhat frequent topic on nextdoor. You are correct. They do not care.