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Managing confirmation blood type orders in Meditech


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Our second ABO  confirmation is a reflex test . This label prints in blood bank and we send it to the clinical floor. We would like to have this label auto print

in the clinical area.  I would you like to know how other Meditech users manage ABO confirmation orders? 

Appreciate your help!

Thanks,

Eva 

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We use Mobilab so it pretty much accomplishes that for us with MEDITECH. However, with so many agency nurses and the incredibly high nursing turnover since COVID, we still have to contact the floor to inform them of the need for the specimen. Nurses have so many areas of responsibility to learn and master and, in many cases, are not given sufficient time to learn them, nevermind master them. Our agency nurses only get 4 hours of training before being assigned patients. That's 4 hours to learn MEDITECH, Mobilab, IMobile, Point-of-Care usage and access, Pharmacy Pyxis, Radiology, and everything else they need to interact with for patient care.

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7 hours ago, jayinsat said:

We use Mobilab so it pretty much accomplishes that for us with MEDITECH. However, with so many agency nurses and the incredibly high nursing turnover since COVID, we still have to contact the floor to inform them of the need for the specimen. Nurses have so many areas of responsibility to learn and master and, in many cases, are not given sufficient time to learn them, nevermind master them. Our agency nurses only get 4 hours of training before being assigned patients. That's 4 hours to learn MEDITECH, Mobilab, IMobile, Point-of-Care usage and access, Pharmacy Pyxis, Radiology, and everything else they need to interact with for patient care.

With staff shortages there is, or at least seems to be, a push to hurry and skimp on training. This usually results in huge amounts of stress due to feeling (and appearing) ignorant, slow, unprepared etc., which in turn causes them to quit. If trained correctly, the stress moves to the existing staff, who may be better able to deal with it as they can see the medium and long term benefits. Or not! A difficult cycle to break. 
 

Sorry for the side bar / rant. To the OP; as jayinsat said; if you auto print, call the station where the label prints to provide an explanation. 

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