A study of the perception and experiences of critical care nurses in caring for potential and actual organ donors: implications for nurse education

This paper describes a research study designed to explore the knowledge, perceptions and attitudes of practising critical care nurses towards caring for ‘brain stem dead’ cadaver organ donors and their families The influence of formal nurse education and experiential learning were investigated toget...

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Published in:Journal of advanced nursing 1995-11, Vol.22 (5), p.929-940
Main Author: Watkinson, G E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Biological organs
Brain dead people
Brain Death
Caring
Clinical Competence
Cognitive Dissonance
Critical Care
Curriculum
Donors
Education, Nursing
Health and social institutions
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health participants
Humans
Medical sciences
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing Methodology Research
Nursing Staff, Hospital - education
Nursing Staff, Hospital - psychology
Perceptions
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Role
Surveys and Questionnaires
Tissue Donors
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Summary:This paper describes a research study designed to explore the knowledge, perceptions and attitudes of practising critical care nurses towards caring for ‘brain stem dead’ cadaver organ donors and their families The influence of formal nurse education and experiential learning were investigated together with what nurses felt could better prepare them for this role Data were collected through self‐completion questionnaires from 103 critical care nurses This was instrumental in forming a semi‐structured interview schedule whereby seven respondents were interviewed The findings of the study suggest that nurses are very favourable towards organ donation and this correlated with their knowledge of brain stem death (P
ISSN:0309-2402
1365-2648
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2648.1995.tb02645.x