Order of Draw
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Does anyone have a catchy phrase or mnemonic to help nursing remember the order of draw?
We need to educate our staff on the correct order of draw.
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Here's a slide from my nursing powerpoint that may help in teaching the order of draw. Hope this helps.
My lab made the below into cards and distributed them to the nurses. Not sure how you’d make a mnemonic out of all of the different tube types.
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We have these little cards that go on everyone's badges for easy reference. Let me know if you'd like me to email you.
My email is lhenson@witham.org. If you can email your cards to me I would appreciate it. What do you teach nurses about using a discard tube prior to a blue top if using a butterfly? Do you teach them to use another blue as a discard or a plain tube? Do you include that tube in the order of draw?
Thanks.
Be sure to make it clear that the order of draw is specific to venipuncture collections only since any location that may collect capillary samples would have a different collection order.
Please email me the little cards that you put on everyone's badge for order of draw.
My email is: Maria.Batter@crozer.org
Thank You!
Here is what I use
Boys = blood cultures
Love = light blue tops
Ravishing = Red
Girls = gold
Like = light green
dieters = dark green
love = lavender
greek = gray
yogurt = yellow ACD tube
Our ER nurses write the letters in the back of their badges.
CBRGLGr
We initial started off with order of draw pins that they could attach to their badges. We have since switched to order of draw cards that attach to their badges.