Importance of Donating Blood, Outline Example

• Introduction
  • Heart-wrenching story to draw in attention
    • Kelsey Harris car accident – blood transfusion saved her life (redcross.org)
  • 5 million volunteer blood donors who give about 6.5 million donations through the American Red Cross blood program every year (redcross.org)
  • Red Cross can distribute up to 9.5 million blood products each year to patients in around 3,000 hospitals and transfusion (redcross.org)

• Importance of Donating Blood
  • Myechia Jordan, the chief medical officer at the Dimock Center
    • Blood is needed every two seconds in the United States (NECN.com)
    • One blood donation can save three lives (NECN.com)

• The Donation Process (redcrossblood.org)
  • Simple, Easy, Painless (relatively)
  • Step 1: Register
  • Step 2: Health History & Mini-Physical
  • Step 3: Donation
  • Step 4: Refreshments

• Closing Argument
  • Blood donation saves lives, helps others and is easy to do.
  • If something would happen to you, would you have wanted someone to donate blood to save your life?

Works Cited

“Donation Process.” American Red Cross. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Aug. 2012. <http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/donation-process>.

Importance of Giving Blood. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Aug. 2012. <http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296e81ec89e43181aa0/?vgnextoid=1fdd628c87201310VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD>.

“Teen Learns Importance of Giving Blood.” Teen Learns “Community Health: Importance of Donating Blood.” NECN. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Aug. 2012. <http://www.necn.com/12/19/11/Community-Health-Importance-of-donating-/landing.html?blockID=615326>.