lhawkins

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1. Formalin handeling and storage

   lhawkins posted a topic in General Nursing

   Anyone have a protocol for handling specimens. Our current practice is the scrub tech places tissue in spec cup and hands it to the nurse circulator. The nurse labels the container, carries it to the dirty utility and pumps about 15mls of formalin i...

2. Surgery Specimen & Lab Procedure

   lhawkins replied to lhawkins's topic in General Nursing

   I can't believe the lab is okay with their current practices. After researching today, I have decided to forgo relabeling and just purchase sterile prefilled containers for each patient. Thanks for your help.

3. Surgery Specimen & Lab Procedure

   lhawkins posted a topic in General Nursing

   Our lab re-uses patient specimen containers (filled with 10% formalin). They rinse out the containers between patients and refill with 10% formalin and give them back to us to use again. Does this pose some type of cross contamination between differe...