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1. Nurses can't draw blood, its always hemolyzed

   HiThisIsStatLabCLICK replied to HiThisIsStatLabCLICK's topic in General Nursing

   Hehehe. The irony here is that lab techs of today (raises hand) don't even know how to draw blood as its no longer part of our curriculum. The old geezers, which describes approximately 98.9% of the laboratory population do though, but heck, they hav...

2. Nurses can't draw blood, its always hemolyzed

   HiThisIsStatLabCLICK replied to HiThisIsStatLabCLICK's topic in General Nursing

   There are two seperate occasions when we can catch hemolysis. Once the specimen is taken out of the centrifuge we see that its hemolyzed, thus it won't be run, and we'll make the call for a restick. Or we miss it and it gets ran anyway, but the resul...

3. Nurses can't draw blood, its always hemolyzed

   HiThisIsStatLabCLICK replied to HiThisIsStatLabCLICK's topic in General Nursing

   Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I don't see what happens in the ER and I don't know how they draw the blood there. All I really know is that once we finish spinning it down in the centrifuge, its hemolyzed. Its pretty much a blame game, the ER thinks ...

4. Nurses can't draw blood, its always hemolyzed

   HiThisIsStatLabCLICK posted a topic in General Nursing

   Okay, now that I've gotten your attention, I didn't really mean it...or did I =) First and foremost I am not a nurse, I'm a technologist in the stat lab with a whopping 1 month of experience. Now, there's been some bad blood brewing recently between ...