HELLO ALL, I hope someone is out there. I am a "long time listener", "first time caller". I work at a small, approx 130 bed hospital. We have recently merged with another hospital, but we have a separate computer system, etc, etc. We are on Meditech magic,sans EMR, and really all goes fairly well. However, to come in line with the mothership, our lab supervisor and rn manager want to toss the affixed transfusion card when the unit is emptied. Currently the patient verification and start and stop times are recorded on this and put in the pt's chart. Now they want to use the common form, so verifying info from the hang tag but all documentation done on a transfusion sheet, and just tossing the whole bag and hang tag when tx completed. They both assure me this is acceptable, I just have doubts about tossing this impt document. Am I being BBK paranoid"?
