As the health care industry’s most comprehensive library of customizable policy and procedure templates, MCN Healthcare’s Outpatient Surgery and Ambulatory Services Policy and Procedure Manual includes this customizable template, Blood Drawing. MCN’s policy library helps you meet compliance with Joint Commission and federal regulations including CMS, CDC, OSHA, OIG, HIPAA and more.

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Here is some sample content from Blood Drawing:

	POLICY: In the interest of patient convenience, blood will be drawn in the facility on all preoperative patients by the nurses of the facility. PROCEDURE: Vacutainers will be used to draw blood specimens. Blood specimens will be labeled, in the presence of the patient, with patient information, date, time and initials of the nurse who drew the blood. All specimens will have a Clinical Laboratory requisition form that will be filled out completely and accurately. All blood bank orders are to be ordered on Blood Bank requisition forms. All Clinical Laboratory orders are entered into the...
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	...the computer. Blood specimens are taken immediately to the Clinical Laboratory. Clinical Laboratory results will be called to the unit and entered into the computer system. STAT blood work results will be called to the unit immediately. Tests requiring special procedures or time elements i.e., modified Ivy Bleeding Time will be drawn by a medical technologist. A medical technologist will provide inservices on drawing blood to the Ambulatory Services nurses. SUBJECT:BLOOD...