Predictive Factor for Signing an Organ Donor Card” a Quantitative Research Study NUR 430 Excelsior College Abstract This paper is a critical analysis of the article “Spirituality as a Predictive Factor for Signing an Organ Donor Card”. The research was preformed by Anat Peles Bortz, RN, PhD, Tamar Ashkenazi, RN,PhD, and Semyon Melnikov, RN, PhD. The research was accepted for publication in 2014. The research was presented at the 25th International Nursing Research Congress Symposium in 2014 in
motivates organ donation? Would you donate an organ to someone who needs it more? What does our culture think about the transplantation of organs? What our thoughts about transplantation says about us as a society and as a country. The first article is called “Organ donation: A communitarian approach”, it relates to my research question because it approaches the community aspect of organ donation through screening previous studies and the group in that studies beliefs of organ donation. The
The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations recommendation to the Office of the National Coordinator is a clear indicator of the impact that Electronic Health Records are having on current organ and tissue donation processes. Electronic Health Records are proven to be a very effective tool in better managing patient health information and improving patient outcomes. The federal push to standardize health care using technology is evident with the introduction if such provisions as the HITECH
arguments supporting the use of an opt-out organ donation system Elizabeth Grice - 1101 Convenor – Dr Stuart Oultram RS1 Word Count: Abstract Introduction England currently practices an opt-in system of organ donation. The waiting list for organ donor transplants exceeds 10,000 meaning that people are losing their lives everyday due to a shortage of donor organs. It has been suggested for a while that England adopts the opt-out system, in order to increase donation rates and decrease the number of people
The need for organs is a growing dilemma amongst America and countries all over the world. Thousands of people sit on waiting lists in hopes to receive a new organ never knowing if they will actually receive one before their delicate organ gives up. Although many people are willing to be donors upon the time of their own death, the shortage of organs hangs over the patients and families who deal with the reality of an organ shortage every day. One solution that has been proposed is allowing people
States, Not Just Legal Citizens, Should Automatically Be Considered Organ Donors Unless Otherwise Specified Rough Draft UFID: 9169-9185 June 6, 2015 I. Background According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, organ transplantation is the process of surgically transferring a donated organ into a patient with end-stage organ failure (U.S Dept of health and human services website). End-stage organ failure can be attributed to a number of diseases. Diseases such
States, Not Just Legal Citizens, Should Automatically Be Considered Organ Donors Unless Otherwise Specified Rough Draft UFID: 9169-9185 June 6, 2015 I. Background According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, organ transplantation is the process of surgically transferring a donated organ into a patient with end-stage organ failure (U.S Dept of health and human services website). End-stage organ failure can be attributed to a number of diseases. Diseases such
English language does not have a word for parents who lose a child; we seldom take the time to contemplate the devastation until it happens. In the awful, bewildering hours after Christopher’s death, my wife and I were asked to consider donating his organs. Thankfully, Chris had answered for us: Just the week before, he had innocently mentioned that he wished to be a donor. Our decision to donate was simply an affirmation of our son’s generosity. Three months later, still in agony over Christopher’s
Thesis: Organ Donors should be able to have the right to choose if their organs after death will be donated to another without any complications even if they die of brain death or euthanasia, inside or outside a medical facility, as well as laws should be put in place or an alternative method stating that their wishes no matter what the family thinks, due to ethical or moral issues, should be honored. Organs are going to waste every year because not enough people are donating their organs. Many
Organ Donation The United States government website organdonor.gov gives information on the organ donation and transplantation. According to the website, there is an increase in demand than supply of organs for donation. Organs donated include kidney, liver, heart, pancreases, bone marrow, bones, and skins. Typically, most donations occur after the death of a person. However, a living donor can donate organs such as the kidney, part of lungs, fraction of intestines or component of the liver. As per