Topic: A Study to Assess the Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Blood Donation among Undergraduate Nursing Students of Selected Colleges of Anand District

Abstract

The current study aims “ A study to assess knowledge and attitude reading blood donation among
undergraduates nursing student of selected colleges of Anand district.” Blood can save a millions of lives.
The requirement of blood and blood product in country depend on the population.(1) The task of recruiting
voluntary blood donor remains one of the major challenges for any blood transfusion service. A blood
donation is truly is a “gift of life” that healthy individual can give to other in their community who are sick
or injured. Blood donation is the mother all donation. It’s not only save one individual but also entire family
of that individual. There should be enough blood unit in blood bank available for everybody’s requirement.
But non availability of sufficient blood unit is problem India. The task of recruiting voluntary blood donors
remain one of the major challenges for any blood transfusion service. The number of potential donors
were often reduced due to the strict selection criteria which were impassed to ensure to the safety of the
blood supplies. In addition to this , blood centers find it difficult to recruit new donor and to retain them of
arranging a regular blood supply for need people.(2)