I currently work in a blood bank where all the techs complain about double documentation, excessive amount of writing, and loss of time due to documenting every move that is made. So, my question is, how much documentation of patient results is actually required to meet the joint commission standards? At this time, we document everything we do on paper including antigen typing (along with qc) then enter all these same results into the computer system (Cerner). Is this necessary or can we just go straight to the computer with our results?
mprado reacted to BBNBHM in blood bank results documentationI currently work in a blood bank where all the techs complain about double documentation, excessive amount of writing, and loss of time due to documenting every move that is made. So, my question is, how much documentation of patient results is actually required to meet the joint commission standards? At this time, we document everything we do on paper including antigen typing (along with qc) then enter all these same results into the computer system (Cerner). Is this necessary or can we just go straight to the computer with our results?