Amber Gaucher Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 I'm curious how many blood banks perform their own scheduled out patient and in house therapeutic phlebotomies. As far as I can tell our hospital is the only one in the state where this is not performed by a donor center, in a doctors office or through same-day surgery. Thanks in advance. Amber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Saikin Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 I do them . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likewine99 Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Our OP Infusion Center does them, thank heavens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butlermom Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 A few of our top phlebotomists are trained to do them. The phlebotomy supervisor was in charge of them when I arrived at my present job and I haven't messed with it! I do, however, review the paperwork, orders, H&H and keep the records for inspections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKidd Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 I perform them at my facility along with a few other techs. Fortunately the Oncology department performs their own. I wish they did them all., but I have met some very nice patients this way.:please: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BankerGirl Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 We do them. We had some phlebotomists trained to perform them several years back, but as soon as we finished training, they seemed to quit. So we are back to the techs doing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcubed Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 We used to do them many years ago. They are now done by nursing staff in the outpatient procedure/infusion clinic. Would be nice if we could still do them. It is good to see "real" patients sometimes and not just tubes of blood. Also a good way to promote to the public the "faceless" laboratory scientists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenJ Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 We used to do them, but after a patient had a bad reaction to the whole process we moved them to oncology and outpatient services. We were not sorry to see them go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 The BB phlebotomist performs them under the approval and supervision of the CP resident, there must be a request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gkloc Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 One of our BB techs is the primary person that does them, and as a backup for her a few phlebs are trained to do them as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardsonj Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 We do them here at our hospital. We have specially trained phlebotomists who perform the actual phlebotomy but it is under the direction of the Transfusion Service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbirder Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 We do them on all inpatients and some outpatients. Our blood center requires payment, with the patient filing insurance claims as needed and this is difficult for some patients.Most of the hematologists have nursing staff that perform them on some outpatients in the office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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