2006-09-26 11:29:16 · 8 answers · asked by Jared 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Depends on which facility, and which department you work in. Smaller facilities tend to place more lab draws on the nurses, from my experience.
2006-09-26 12:45:58 · answer #1 · answered by big_shot_nurse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on where they work. In a small clinic, the RN might be the only person qualified to do blood draws. At the hospitals where I work, they usually have the LPN do the basic blood draws, and only call the RN if it is complicated. I know several RNs that do mostly paperwork, and don't really provide patient care, so they don't do any blood draws. In your average hospital job, RNs indeed perform a significant amount of blood draws.
2006-09-26 18:32:51 · answer #2 · answered by rita_alabama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MORE THAN THEY SHOULD! Many RNs are not proper blood specimen collection or order of draw and yet they are expected to carry out this very important task. The lab results are only as good as the sample and sometimes the results are way off. I've spent the last 4 days trying to fix mistakes caused by samples drawn incorrectly, labeled incorrectly and in two cases not even drawn on the right patients!!!!!!! Don't get me wrong - I love our nursing staff. But it makes no sense that when there is a nursing shortage that hospitals would add more duties to the jobs of the nursing staff - especially one they've not been properly taught!!!! Sorry, but you've hit a really really sore spot with me.
2006-09-26 18:35:25 · answer #3 · answered by petlover 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are required to know how. However I know some that passed through the cracks so to speak in school but technically do not really know what they are doing.Some will do it some refuse to do it. That in part may be why so many hospitals and MD offices rely on phlebotomists.Phlebotomists go through a program at a school or college for 9 months to a year in order to learn drawing blood. That and collecting urine specimens and things of that nature are basically all they do.
2006-09-26 18:37:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can and usually do some blood draws. It depends on the nurse, their patients and the facility they are working at. Where I work most of the blood is drawn by Phlebotimists. When the phlebs are swamped the nurses will step in and draw.
2006-09-26 19:18:12 · answer #5 · answered by jediaaylas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes, as a nurse I would perform multiple blood draws in a day. I would also start intravenous lines and draw fingersticks for measuring blood sugar.
2006-09-26 18:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by phantomlimb7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RNs can do blood draws, whether or not they do depends in large part on where they work.
2006-09-26 18:30:33 · answer #7 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes they do. there the only ones that do it.doctors dont do that anymore, just the RN`S
2006-09-26 18:32:08 · answer #8 · answered by flguy48tc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋