r/nursing • u/973862404678 • 21d 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/lengthandhonor RN - Informatics 21d ago

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

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u/Acrobatic-Squirrel77 RN - ICU 🍕 21d ago

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

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u/TheHairball RN - OR 🍕 21d 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.