In our institution we issue blood using an electronic form which is also used by nursing to enter vital signs, volume infused, and beside signatures of of the nurses involved in the administraion of the product. Our policy - which indirectly follows 5.27.1 of Standards - require us to review the forms for completeness. But to answer your question, no it is not required as far as I know. Standards only indicates that the patient's medical record contain this information. It could be located on five different sets of paperwork in the patient's chart, but the requirement would still be satisfied. This is why, personally, I like all of this information being in one place - i.e. an electronic form or returned tag. The difference between the two of us is that I only have to review about 200 forms a month, not 1800. Big difference. Hope this helps.