Organ Donation: An annotated bibliography
Ju, M. K., Sim, M. K., & Son, S. Y. (2018, May). A study on nursing students’ knowledge, attitude, and educational needs for brain-death organ transplantation and donation and intent to donate organs. In Transplantation proceedings (Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 1187-1191). Elsevier.
This article looks at the perspectives, attitudes, and will of nursing students toward organ donation from brain dead patients to terminally ill patients on deathbeds. The article research data aims at bringing awareness and education to nursing students in institutions of learning. Through a qualitative study, the authors reveal that most nursing fields are not given formal education on organ donation. Leading to negative attitudes, and donation rates decrease. Because nurses lack prior knowledge of organ donation, advising patients’ guardians on consent to donate becomes difficult. The authors revealed that a negative attitude towards organ donation is prevalent in the study area of South Korea.
The authors reveal that though nurses play a significant role in increasing organ donation. There still lacks of transplant educational programs in medical, institutional facilities. The article aims explicitly to investigate the nurse’s education on brain dead organ donation, investigate nurses’ perceptions in correlation with the knowledge they have received on transplants, and narrow down the factors that affect nurses’ ability to perform brain dead organ donations. The authors in their study used 215 participant third and fourth-year students from fourth-year, Gyeonggi province. Participants’ attitudes about brain death transplant donation were looked at using positive and negative reviews through questionnaires. Findings showed that most nursing students lacked awareness of the importance of organ donation.85℅ of the students learned this through personal research. This article proved relevant to my topic study. It highlighted a surge in organ donations after nurses received education on organ donation and effectively held talks with prospective donors.
Works cited
Ju, M. K., Sim, M. K., & Son, S. Y. (2018, May). A study on nursing students’ knowledge, attitude, and educational needs for brain-death organ transplantation and donation and intent to donate organs. In Transplantation proceedings (Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 1187-1191). Elsevier.