Multiple organ retrieval: impact on staff and institutions.
Perioperative nurses, along with other nurses, and health care institutions, are affected directly and indirectly by the present day process of multiple organ retrieval from a declared brain dead donor. The recognition of potential stress and impact situations in the retrieval process may assist in the planning of effective interventions to enable optimal organ retrievals.
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D001926:Brain Death; D006801:Humans; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards