Getting glucose from an IV needle

[Handsome Robb]

Since he started the IV he had a blood sample. It seems common practice around here to get a test from that.

Any patient that gets an IV gets a BGL test.

Bingo.

Then I got stuck redoing it because it gave me a whacked number.

Its dumb but per protocol a "complete set of vitals" which every patient is to have recorded includes a BGL. Needless to say that protocol gets ignored quite often but if I have the sample from an IV there's no real reason not to do it unless I have bigger fish to fry and not enough hands.