Nursing Research Paper About Organ Transplantation

ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
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Organ transplantation is a medical operation in which an organ is extracted from one physique and placed into the body of a beneficiary in the aim of replacing any mutilated or missing organ. In transplantation, there are two primary sources of organs one is deceased donors who suffered internal bleeding in the course of their death hence the families of these patients tends to generously donate the organs. The other source is the living donors who voluntarily offer to donate their organs without the recipient’s knowledge. The living related donors (LRD) are those donors who are related to the recipients by blood and mainly these are the parents, children or the siblings of the beneficiary. ‘‘The most important thing is to first consider the safety and productiveness of the aged living donors by finding out whether the donor is above or less than 55 years of age’’,(Benzing etal, 2015).
Cadaver donors are legal organizations that donate dead bodies to be used in scientific research by medical students whereby the process mainly involves taking organs such as lungs, pancreas lungs and the heart from dead people. Prior to transplantation, the family is usually prepared financially since insurance don’t cover some expenses such as travel expense in seek of treatment or some un related issues discovered during the process hence the families have to cater for the extra expenses as well as tax deductions which in most cases likely to drain them financially. A child who is under 18 cannot give informed consent since a person must be at least be 18 years of age to donate as it involves a medical procedure and the donor is entitled to give a legal informed consent. In addition since the all procedure is voluntary, a parent cannot give consent for a child who is under the age of 18 years. ‘‘Informed consent form’s role enables the patient to be able to make a decision voluntarily after reading the terms listed’’, (Madeira & Jody, 2015)
The uniform anatomical gift act (UAGA) is a law that was passed in the US. The act positions a specific structure for the donation of organs as it helps channel dona...