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Hi, I am a rising 4th year nursing student doing a project for a statistics class and am designing an experiment to see if there is a correlation between being a nurse/nursing student and donating blood. I would really appreciate any responses to the poll! Also, feel free to leave comments, especially if you are ineligible to donate, I would be interested to know why. Thanks!
I do not, but I am a plasma donor, which I understand is used a lot in NICUs and burn centers. Not many people can receive my blood type (A-) so my plasma is more useful, and I am paid $55/week to donate. I would donate blood, too, if I could, but you can't do both.
That's really interesting! I'm A-, too, but I'm a "lifesaver" because my area is in need of my blood type. (Lifesaver = Special Donor Programs )
It's a shame they have such a hard time actually getting blood out.
I've donated blood a few times in my life. I've also done the plasma thing as well when I needed the cash, and as others have said, you can't do both. Hopefully I'm at a point in my life where I don't need to go to the plasma center so I can have gas money for the week, so my blood donations should increase in the near future :)
I have donated 2 - 3 times a year for the past 20 years. I am O neg so yes I do feel a little bit of a pull
to donate for altruistic reasons....but I will be honest, at heart I am a mercenary.
I time my donations to coincide with major blood drives by radio stations or big events.
I am a blood donor t-shirt junkie. I have tons of t-shirts, have gone to several concerts for free, get movie tickets, cd's, posters, etc. With the new Twilight movie coming out (which I have no desire to see) my wife found out they are giving free tix for donations of blood and is pushing me to go.
Aside from the "swag" I get for donating I still enjoy knowing I helped out.
I Have donated plasma once...and ever since I only donate whole blood ...was a nasty clinic in the inner city that was a perfect sterotype of of the kind of clinic that only winos and junkies would go to sell blood for cash to buy their next fix or bottle. Also the techs skills were abit suspect. Finally I did not enjoy the feeling of the "blood" being pumped back into me.
I can't donate because my veins are too small to get a good stick. When I was in the hospital for a surgery, they had to do a PICC line because my veins kept collapsing within an hour of the IV being placed! I've always tried to donate, though... Once I went through 15 needle sticks before the nurses all gave up and told me, thanks, but no thanks.
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That's the first time I've heard anything about that, and I Googled around a bit before deciding to become a donor. There are also medicines that could not be made without plasma. The Rogam (sp?) shot many women need is one of them. They need donors with negative blood to make that.