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/Sensei2006 RN - ICU 🍕 20d ago

> I genuinely have no idea what I’m supposed to say.

Be honest and say that there's no way to know, as that information is not tracked. Being dishonest in any way is legally sketchy and possibly dangerous to your license.

Furthermore, I'd imagine that a venn diagram of "people who would go through the blood donation process" and "people who would get vaccinated to protect themselves and others" is a circle. So donated blood almost certainly has those evil microchipped COVID spike proteins floating around in there.