The transplant nurse coordinator is the main source in providing education to the transplant patient and their families. Education is provided through informational learning sessions, teaching manuals, and the internet. Recent regulations mandated nationally by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) have made informed consent standardized. The addition of informed consent will add to the education process as it provides living donors with information to make well-informed decisions regarding their future health.
Evidence shows that living donors are at no greater risk of developing end stage renal disease (ESRD) than the general population. Specific medical conditions within the general population are recognized as health risks for the living donor (Muzaale et al., 2014). These health risks for example are obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. The goal of this research proposal is to minimize these health risks through the addition and education in informed consent. Standardizing informed consent will provide consistent information to all living donors.
The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze the data collection method, data measurement and expected outcomes for this research proposal. Through the implementation of nursing research the goal of this proposal is to gain knowledge that the potential living donor understands the short and long term health risks associated with donation. This paper will justify and evaluate the implementation for necessary changes of this proposal.
Data Collection
The researcher is now ready to collect and measure data that will answer or attempt to answer the initial research question. The researcher should...
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...he Pearson r method of measurement will provide a correlation between the two groups of donors and the effectiveness of informed consent and the education process. Finally with the knowledge obtained from the research proposal will encourage long term follow-up and provide data for future potential donors.
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With deaths occurring everyday due to a lack of organ donation, this tragic situation could possibly be rectified by educating the public about organ donation by revealing stories behind successuful transplants and the reality that organ donation is truly giving
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When looking at organ donation through the lense of a functional analyst, the institution of health was created to serve many different purposes. The function of health in our society is to provide
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Iran, which has the world’s only regulated system for compensating a kidney donor, has practically eliminated the wait for kidney donation. While Iran’s numbers seem promising when compared to the wait list in the United States, their numbers are still questionable. First, Iran has an authoritarian government, which is widely distrusted in the global community; therefore, many do not trust the accuracy of the numbers which they report. Additionally, Iran has not produced any long-term follow-up information about the donors and the recipients. Despite the reported $3,500 - $5,700 that living donors received, seventy-nine percent of donors could not afford follow-up care. In addition, Dr. J. Richard Thistlethwaite, a transplant surgeon at the University of Chicago, states that “The stigma associated with selling your organs was so strong that 98% did not want to be identified as organ donors” (Stevens...
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One of the most important and prevalent issues in healthcare discussed nowadays is the concern of the organ donation shortage. As the topic of organ donation shortages continues to be a growing problem, the government and many hospitals are also increasingly trying to find ways to improve the number of organ donations. In the United States alone, at least 6000 patients die each year while on waiting lists for new organs (Petersen & Lippert-Rasmussen, 2011). Although thousands of transplant candidates die from end-stage diseases of vital organs while waiting for a suitable organ, only a fraction of eligible organ donors actually donate. Hence, the stark discrepancy in transplantable organ supply and demand is one of the reasons that exacerbate this organ donation shortage (Parker, Winslade, & Paine, 2002). In the past, many people sought the supply of transplantable organs from cadaver donors. However, when many ethical issues arose about how to determine whether someone is truly dead by either cardiopulmonary or neurological conditions (Tong, 2007), many healthcare professionals and transplant candidates switched their focus on obtaining transplantable organs from living donors instead. As a result, in 2001, the number of living donors surpassed the number of cadaver donors for the first time (Tong, 2007).
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Organ donation is always a hard decision to make before you pass away, and for your loved ones to make after you have passed away. People often misinterpret how organ donation works. In order for someone to want to be a donor they have to be able to understand all the facts about it. Not all people realize how important being an organ donor is. Three steps that everyone should go through before you decide where you stand on organ donation are understanding the facts from myths, understand the process of organ donation, and read at least one story of how organ donation has changed someone’s life. (Organ Donation Myths, Ten Facts,
Finally, public awareness regarding how to go about organ donation should be drastically improved upon. This could be done by advertising how to go about donation, and what affect donation has on other peoples lives. Awareness campaigns and advertisements have has a massive positive effect on blood donation. I believe this method can also be utilised for Organ donation, and the same positive effect achieved.
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