Blood Donation Reflective Essay

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Last school year I donated blood for one of the high school’s blood drives. In the process of donating blood they took my phone number and other information so if there was a need for my blood type they would be able to call me and ask for future donations. Since then I have received multiple calls from the blood donation center, stating that they have a shortage of blood supply and stressing how it’s a critical issue for the local hospital. Until then, I never really thought much about this issue because you don’t see a lack of blood supply as a story on the news. However, it did get me thinking and I started to wonder what would happen if no one was donating blood. What would the hospitals? Blood can’t be made, so how do hospitals provide for their patients when they don’t have enough blood? These questions led me to my project, were I decided to use my community service hours to set up a blood drive at PHS and help the hospitals receive pints of blood. My plan of action to execute my senior project was to make the students in my high school aware that there was going to be a blood drive. Therefore, we used posters, flyers, and announcements were made over the intercom system to spread the word. The second step was to have students start signing up the week before the actual blood drive. My mentor and I wanted to have at least a 100 students sign up. However, we knew that there was a high possibility that some students might not be able to donate blood due to low iron or other factors. Therefore, although we wanted to sign up 100 students our main goal was to collect 70 pints of blood the day of the blood drive. Trying to reach the goal of sign-ups was somewhat difficult because of my schedule. As a dual enrollment student I only attend High School in the mornings so it wasn’t able to stay all 4 lunches because I have nursing courses in the afternoons at
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