Quote:
Originally Posted by justafriend306
Lying would be for me not an option - we are talking about someone else's life here.
Your motivation for donating blood and plasma should be for ethical reasons and a wish to help. It floors me that someone would do so for the sole reason of money. Perhaps you should evaluate your reasons for doing so. If you are doing so out of a sense of moral duty or need to help you wouldn't be feeling the need to lie - which in such a situation is incredibly self-serving and immoral.
I have an additional idea to point out here. Your medications may not permit you to donate in the first place. If you are the type to not disclose this? I am left speechless.
|
Wait, what? I'm an RN. I'm aware of why people need plasma, have
administered plasma in the ER more times than I can remember, and am aware of what medications do and do not prevent a person from donating. None of what I take are those meds--what excludes people from giving are chemo drugs and immunosuppressants, which the center makes very clear during your intake. I was being facetious (and venting frustration) about lying. Ethically, I would never lie about a medical issue. That's why I
didn't and was frustrated
because I told the truth. The RN I spoke do during my exam was frustrated for me. That's why I posted here, to let off some frustration.
Let's be honest, here. 90% or more of the people in that donation center are there because they need money. Every person I have spoken to is doing it for extra cash (including two of my friends from nursing school, including my T when she started her private practice)--the center has specials and gives out coupons increasing the amount donors get for donating if they donate so much in a certain span of time.
I don't think being judgmental is necessary. I'm not trying to be snappy at all, but don't know me from a hole in the ground, tbh.