caringtolearn

Thank you all for taking the time to read and answer my question, I value your time and experience. You have cleared it up a bit for me, I can see what you mean Ashley about the hemoglobin being the most important and the staff referring to it as h&h__.

I am a lvn student and I have a question about labs that I can not find an answer to and when I asked my instructor she couldn't be bothered with it. My question is this, I know h&h stand for hemoglobin and hematocrit and they are run as two seperate labs but alway run together, I always see the values as hgn then the value, and the same with hct, yet people will say the pts h&h was #, are they combing the values to get an overall h&h value? I don't see on any lab reports h&h___ they are always printed as two seperate values. I don't want to look stupid by saying the hemoglobin was ___ and the hematocrit is____ when they can be stated as h&h was ________. I asked a friend who is a nurse and she said she had never heard of anyone saying it as h&h_____ that it is always two seperate values. So if anyone can help me with this I will be grateful.

My pt is diagnosisd as chf, myelodysplastic anemial, right hip replacement, not wanting to move around to much, tryng to stay in bed. I just want to get better doing my care plans and help will be appreciated