How to order blood culture?

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The doctor gave an order for a blood culture,stat, q5 min x 10 min, two different sites. When lab tech saw the order she told me it didn't make any sense to her... So i explained and She still couldn't get it.. She told me that the way they do it is different... It's supposed to be q15 minutes according to her and that blood cultures couldn't be ordered stat because it's a send-out lab work... I told her for the nth time that the stat refers to the blood being drawn STAT and not the actual result of the culture.... It was sooooo frustrating! Are there any other ways a blood culture should be written? Thanks for the help!

As a former Lab Supervisor, you should consult the laboratory procedure manual for you facility on the proper collection. The phlebotomist is a laboratory employee that works under the pathologist's license, and she has to follow laboratory policy and procedure.

This is exactly why I would have just drawn them myself if the doc's order was different from policy or if the phleb wasn't able/unwilling to get it. Trying to get the phleb too change is just to complicated and time consuming. If I draw them, done and over with in two shakes.

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