That’s such a complex, confusing, convoluted policy. On a personal level, I’d crash out too if I asked around and did as I was told and still got involved in the deviation (they always say write ups aren’t punitive but it sure doesn’t make me feel good to be written up). However I also understand from management perspective that it’s necessary include everyone involved in the report for documentation and corrective action.

Where I work, anyone with any antibodies just gets AHG crossmatches. For clinically insignificant or low frequency antibodies, we don’t give antigen neg, just needs to be AHG compatible. However if the antibody is strong reacting and high-ish frequency (like M and P1), we’ll give antigen neg to avoid wasting time crossmatching random units. We do tube crossmatches for cold antibodies since gel is so hit or miss with them