We are considering eliminating the blood bank band here is our hospital. We use meditech, TAR and are going to mobilab by this fall. I am wondering what other hospitals have done for implementation and policy changes. Areas of concern are: Nursing cutting off the patient band......do you require them to notify the blood bank? Do you restrict who reprints the admission band, while also having some supervisory process over that? Trauma's and emergencies.........do you still use the blood bank band in these instances for identification? What do you do about outpatient surgery patients? Any information, opinions, what worked and what hasn't is much appreciated.