Specimen Collection Requirements

[mld123]

Hello Everyone,

I am wondering what everyone does for specimen collection requirements as far as identification of who drew the specimen.  We currently have Sunquest and use Tech Code or if someone does not have a Tech Code we use full name on the tube.  We enter the name in as an Order Comment so that we could trace back who drew the specimen after it is physically discarded.  Is anyone use initials only and how would you trace this back to who drew the specimen?  Do we need to be able to trace it back after the specimen is discarded?  Maybe I am making this more complicated then it needs to be.

Thanks for your help.

mld123

[OregonBB]

We require that every pretransfusion tube be signed by the phlebotomist. Our strong preference is the employee number/tech code. But we do allow initials/signatures. In these cases we can check the info in the HIS/LIS and connect the initials to the employee, if needed. But we do not have a policy that requires us to confirm this in the HIS/LIS. The main thing is that the tube must have the employee ID/initials or it's rejected. (For non pretransfusion samples, ie DATs, Cords, ABO Confirms, prenatals - we do not require an employee ID/initials. We simply depend on the HIS/LIS in these cases.)

 

-Jesse

[pbaker]

We use employee ID number that is then entered into the system when the specimen is received.

[SMILLER]

We read the collector's initials off the tube.  On the BB system, the initials are the codes used to ID the full name of the collector.

Scott