At my hospital, we have always had a policy to have two trained hospital staff present to verify positive patient identification and initials blood bank specimens collected . However in the past year, we purchased one of the bar code scanning systems to positively identify patients during specimen collection. My issue now is that hospital administration wants to do away with requirement that a second person be persent. Outside of pleading with admin for patient safety. Any good advise that can turn this event in my favor.
