Nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Matten, M R ; Sliepcevich, E M ; Sarvela, P D ; Lacey, E P ; Woehlke, P L ; Richardson, C E ; Wright, W R
• Description:
  The acute shortage of human organs and tissues for transplantation has been attributed in part to health professionals, including nurses, for their reluctance to recognize and refer suitable candidates for donation. In 1988, nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding organ and tissue donation and transplantation were assessed using a 70-item questionnaire. Respondents included 1,683 nurses employed in 62 rural and urban hospitals in the Midwest. Only 365 respondents (21.7 percent) reported having requested tissue donations and 243 (14.4 percent) reported having requested organ donations. However, of those who requested tissue or organ donations, 270 (74 percent) obtained consents for tissues and 150 (61.7 percent) obtained consent for organ donations. Respondents were knowledgeable about organ and tissue donation (mean score of 7.5 on a 0 to 10 knowledge scale with 10 as highest) and reported attitudes and beliefs were moderately positive. Factors that were significantly correlated with the number of requests made for organs and tissues and the number of consents obtained included nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about donation; nurses' perception of their own confidence in their ability to request tissues and organs; being a supervisor; and working in an emergency department.
• Subjects:
  Adult Attitude Data Collection Educational Status Female Humans Male Nurse's Role Nurses Research Article Tissue And Organ Procurement Tissue Donors Transplantation

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• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 106(2):155-166
• Pubmed ID:
  1902308
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  106
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:76ca78fd082c833c5d12fdeae7e08f3d5c06b03d35098b584e6383895a329147
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/63585/cdc_63585_DS1.pdf
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