Who draws the blood at your hospital?

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Hello from Texas!! We are a 385 bed county hospital. As of now we ,the Lab, draw all blood work. Our Director has decided to train Nurses to draw blood. I really don like this idea. I like know that my fleet of Phlebotomist do this and only this as their job all day. I know they will always preform the proper id"ing, mixing of tubes, using transfer devices etc.:up: What do you do at your hospitals?Thanks Jess MT Phlebotomy Supervisor:typing

We (RNs) do AM labs (at 9pm), cultures, all IVs, line draws. Just not ABGs. Day nurses sometimes do blood draws during the day if necessary, but even when necessary often let the lab go undrawn for hours and hours because "I figured you'd get it when you do AM labs..." even when there aren't AM labs ordered... silly goofs lol

Specializes in Step-down, cardiac.

RNs do all a.m. blood draws?! How on earth do they have time for that? At my hospital, RNs only do draws from PICC lines or Mediports. Phlebotomy techs do all the routine blood draws, thank goodness.

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