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 - All Adult/Peds nursing units and clinics with Zebra label printers with One-part labels will be affected by this change.
- If your Unit/Clinic does not use a One-Part Label on a Zebra label printer, then you are not affected by this change.
- Label will lose a few millimeters in height and length in order to fit on commonly sized vacutainers.
- As long as the specimen is documented as collected in Epic, collection information will not be required to be handwritten on the label.
- Continue to handwrite specimen source for all non-blood specimens if the source has not been documented in Epic.
- Handwritten collection information on the label will be required in periods of downtime.
- Printing the label after documenting as collected in Epic will not force the collection information to print on the label.
- Lab will continue to provide zebra labels to all departments.
- The old stock will correctly print the new label type so the nursing units/clinics will be able to continue their processes without interruption.
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Kristina A. Cherry PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FNP-BC Chief Nursing Executive
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