We are 165 beds. I feel like we do just above the minimum.. We do type and screens/ antibody ID, antigen typing and Poly Dats. We only send out about 5 samples a year to a reference lab. I don't think it would be cost efficient for us to bring any of those tests in house.
We have a shelf labeled "Blood Received Shelf" As we get the blood in from our supplier it goes on this shelf. After we bring it in our system and retype it the blood will go on its respective shelf.
I've been doing this for 7 years (not very long in the grand scheme of things) but I've never seen or heard of ABO confirmation stickers!
At first we ordered some Non LR but we don't have an option for doctors to order NonLR RBCs and we don't have any products built in our system to be NonLR and it was going to be a nightmare.
So, we called a new blood supplier and they got our shelves filled.
Some of these units on my list were transfused over a month ago. I'm already up to 100 units and I'm still not finished going through it. My blood supplier has given us ZERO information on what to do. Only to keep a record of it.
I'm the same way. But my MD is very umm.. I can't think of a word. But there's a good chance he'll want me diving in to every patient that got transfused.
I feel like our blood supplier also should be telling us how to handle this since the FDA is involved.
Oh I understand completely! I have not been the blood bank supervisor here for very long. They do a few things I do not agree with. I'm working on so many things but I hope to get this process fixed.
I think I'll definitely be stealing Wbersl idea as well to keep us in check.
Now, I'm stuck on a time line. I basically have to write or rewrite 5 policies. That could take a while considering my current situation. Is a few months an acceptable timeline for these non conformances ?
So fun story, one of our supervisors thought the Quality systems stuff for AABB was BS. So she made a BS manual and every procedure in there is named BS...
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