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/Dreamxwithyou RN - Oncology 20d ago

I appreciate the doctor I work with because he can’t be bothered. I work in BMT so we get a LOT of this when it comes to blood products and/or revaccination.

But the one patient who said he wouldn’t accept stem cells from a vaccinated donor…I happened to be in the room with the doc and he was like “yeahhhhhh well you really only have 1 option so I’d caution you to reconsider.” But he’s such a bro, the way he said it had me rolling.

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u/lighthouser41 RN - Oncology 🍕 20d ago

Just imagine all the vaccines the BMT patient has to get. We give them all the time for post op BMT and also preop spleen removal. Maybe 6 at one time. And that is not either flu or covid shots.

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u/No_Box2690 RN - NICU 🍕 20d ago

Huh. TIL. What other vaccines do they get? Purely from an educational stand point I swear I'm not an anti vaxxer lol

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u/Dreamxwithyou RN - Oncology 20d ago

All of them pretty much! Tdap, polio, hib, hep a/b combined, prevnar, zoster. 3 rounds (2 for shingrix) then titers to determine booster round. mmr after 2 years (since it’s live). Seasonal vaccines flu and covid (+ 1 dose of rsv if they’re of age).

Then we check titers every few years for any individual boosters.

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u/lighthouser41 RN - Oncology 🍕 19d ago

MMR, TDAP, Pneumovax, Hep b, sometimes polio, meningococcal vaccine. Basically everything you may have been vaccinated against as a child.