NURS 4433 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Fraction Of Inspired Oxygen, Nephrectomy
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Med surg: organ donation: health challenges in organ donation. Care of the organ donor and transplant recipient: you can always withdrawal your consent to donate, staff nurse will not talk to family about donation. Nurse can give the family resources: every facility has there own policy regarding organ donation, usually around 120,000 on organ needs list, organ donation myths: They wont save your life if you are an organ donor. It"s against most religions to donate organs. Donor is only responsible for cost of care related to there illness. Typically better tissue match between donor and recipient. Recipient does not have to be on the waiting list. Less remorse -> no one had to die so i could live. The patient isn"t as sick typically: can be performed on liver, kidney, blood, and bone marrow, qualifying. Physically fit, overall good health, no htn, dm, ca, renal, heart, or infectious diseases.
