The Delta State University\u00a0Student Nurses Association was honored Thursday\u00a0at Walter Sillers Coliseum for leading the university to a victory in the 2014 Donor Challenge against Mississippi College.<\/p>\n
Chuck Stinson, director of Community Services & Relations at the Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency (MORA), presented a trophy and $500 check to the student nurses who helped lead the campaign to promote\u00a0organ and tissue donation awareness<\/p>\n
MORA organized the Donor Challenge as a form of college outreach that promotes the need for organ, eye and tissue donation. The program provides education, volunteer training and gives college students a chance to register as donors while encouraging donor designations campus-wide among fellow students, staff, faculty, alumni and fans.<\/span><\/p>\n During the four-week challenge period, Delta State accounted for more donor designations than competition rival Mississippi College. Campus totals were based on a unique scoring system that fully credited new donor designations and utilized a point system for existing designations from fans, students, alumni, faculty and staff that identified their donor status. Delta State tallied 341.75 points, which accounted for 234 new donor designations and 431 existing designations. MC finished close behind with 311 points (267 new donor designations, 216 existing designations).<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBeing part of the 2014 Donor Challenge was a lot of work, but it has been very rewarding,\u201d said Delta State senior nursing student, Mary Hodges. \u201cDuring the 10 events we hosted, I have had the opportunity to interact with students, faculty and the community that I would not have had the chance to even meet without this challenge. I especially loved hearing the personal stories about organ donation. It was a great experience and provided a chance for us to work together for a great cause.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n At present, more than 1,400 Mississippians and more than 123,000 Americans are in need of a lifesaving transplant. A new patient is added to the national transplant waiting list every 10 minutes and an average of 18 people die each day awaiting a lifesaving transplant that never comes. One organ donor can save eight lives and one tissue donor can save or improve the lives of 50 recipients or more. To register as an organ, eye and tissue donor, go to\u00a0<\/span>www.donatelifems.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Delta State University\u00a0Student Nurses Association was honored Thursday\u00a0at Walter Sillers Coliseum for leading the university to a victory in the 2014 Donor Challenge against Mississippi College. Chuck Stinson, director…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":62898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,418,55,246],"tags":[1121,391,1418],"class_list":["post-62895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-community-3","category-school-of-nursing","category-students","tag-delta-state-student-nurses-association","tag-resson","tag-school-of-nursing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62900,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62895\/revisions\/62900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}