We call all newborn blood types and DAT results to nursing services. We also call all blood types on females who are within child bearing age. This seems very redundant considering the results are readily available to nursing services in their HIS. I would like to see this policy go away completely or at least tweaked to only calling positive DATs or blood types on RH negative females within child bearing age. It has been explained to me that we do this as a courtesy and also as patient advocates. Nursing services has also complained about this practice because they have to stop what they are doing to come to the phone when results are readily available in the computer. So any thoughts?