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We recently went live with Cerner. The nursing staff uses the Bridge application of Cerner to transfuse all blood products. The nursing staff decided not to use Bridge during Traumas and MTPs, which means we had to develop a paper downtime form for these situations. Currently, we are hand writing these forms which I am completely against because this leaves too much room for human error and patient's safety is out the window. I am trying to change this, and need help from other Blood Bankers that use Bridge/Cerner. How does your Blood Bank handle Traumas/MTPs? Do the nurses use a form in Powercharts? Do you have a form you are willing to share that prints from Cerner with the patient's information AND unit information on it? Even if you don't use Bridge, but use Cerner, how do you handle Truamas/MTPs? Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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