title: Responses of perioperative nurses to organ procurement surgery.
abstract: For many hospitals, organ retrieval surgery has become a reality. Organ retrieval surgery is an emotive procedure, fraught with ethical and moral dilemmas (Barzizza, 1990; Kawamoto, 1992). Perioperative nurses who participate in the procurement phase of organ donation are subject to emotions that could be potentially difficult. There is a need for greater understanding of perioperative nurses and their responses to procurement surgery. Increased knowledge of the procedure of organ procurement surgery, in addition to greater emotional support and follow-up can only serve to improve perioperative nurses' belief in themselves as an important link in the process of organ donation, procurement and transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Prince George Regional Hospital, BC.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Page
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D004644:Emotions; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D013527:Perioperative Nursing; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement