I volunteered for the University of Minnesota Group I am involved in called Be the Match on October 1st from 10-11 at Coffman Union before and during the Saving Second Base 5k. This group I’m in is interested in signing up a diverse mix of people to the bone marrow registry to save those with blood diseases. While what we do is all volunteering based and not in hospitals being the ones taking others bone marrow, we learn about the donation process. As regards to safety during the bone marrow donation process, they sterilize your arm or the area around your pubic bone depending on the type of donation needed. The nurses make sure there is no contamination in the area where the needle is inserted. Then the nurses insert the needle into the arm or pubic area with precision needing to hit the right spot.
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Safety is very important in this process to insure the patient doesn’t get an infection, get a needle inserted in the wrong spot or not finding a perfect match. Secondly, teamwork is especially important in the volunteering aspect and in the hospitals. When I was volunteering at the race, I encouraged people to be a match for those with a blood disease, along with a couple others, but the importance of this is far beyond just a few people. Across the Nation many schools and groups work together as a team to find life savers for those who are sick. Then, throughout the hospital, we can see teamwork among the donation process, transportation of the marrow, and injection of the marrow into the sick patient. It literally “takes a village” to make this process succeed. Depending on the donation process one to a couple nurses are in charge of taking out the marrow. Next, the marrow must be transported to the patient, where another nurse hooks the patient up to the life changing contents flowing into them through an
Safety is very important in this process to insure the patient doesn’t get an infection, get a needle inserted in the wrong spot or not finding a perfect match. Secondly, teamwork is especially important in the volunteering aspect and in the hospitals. When I was volunteering at the race, I encouraged people to be a match for those with a blood disease, along with a couple others, but the importance of this is far beyond just a few people. Across the Nation many schools and groups work together as a team to find life savers for those who are sick. Then, throughout the hospital, we can see teamwork among the donation process, transportation of the marrow, and injection of the marrow into the sick patient. It literally “takes a village” to make this process succeed. Depending on the donation process one to a couple nurses are in charge of taking out the marrow. Next, the marrow must be transported to the patient, where another nurse hooks the patient up to the life changing contents flowing into them through an