How nurses experience caring for organ donors--why do they feel so bad?
For some time in my life as a nurse, working in Neurosurgery Intensive Care Units, I have frequently had the opportunity to care for patients in a coma. The patient in a coma, more than the coma's clinical situation itself, was a huge challenge. To be more precise, the person in a coma always fascinated me. I don't remember at any time doubting that I was caring for a person, but I often felt the need to be conscious of it, in order to control my performance and to give humane care.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001926:Brain Death; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology; D003128:Coma / Q000451:nursing*; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology*