title: Harvesting of organs: the nursing issues.
abstract: The RCN Congress of 1991 discussed the ethics of harvesting' organs from patients who are brainstem dead but whose organs are being kept viable (through technological means) to enable them to be removed for transplantation. This review of the legal, ethical and nursing implications of organ harvesting is intended to act as a framework for local discussion and policy formulation.
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D014180:Transplantation / Q000451:nursing*