Presentations:
~ Identifying Organ Donation Potential
~ Identification, Referral and Intervention
~ Obtaining Consent: Issues and Considerations
The program features experts in the area of organ donation and is designed to educate nurses, nursing students, administrators and other health care professionals and students on how to identify and refer potential organ donors, as well as, the many factors which should be considered in the consent process.
After viewing the program, participants should be able to:
(1) Describe how an organ procurement organization utilizes retrospective death records review to determine a hospital's organ donor potential,
(2) Describe how brain death is determined and how to maintain a brain dead beating heart donor,
(3) Describe how to identify a potential organ donor and when to refer the donor to an organ procurement organization,
(4) Describe an informed consent, and
(5) Cite three factors affecting the consent process.
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