I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
Nurses play a vital role in patient care and also in Organ Donation process. Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai has contributed significantly to the Deceased Organ Donation programme thereby helping poor patients suffering from organ failure.
The transplant coordinators of MOHAN Foundation initiated a program to sensitize the nurses of Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in March 2013. Initially the program covered nurses of Trauma Ward and IMCU. The program will continue in April, 2013
The following topics were covered during the sensitization:
1. Normal Physiology of Brain
2. Legal issues in Organ Donation
3. Types of Donor
4. Brain Death and Coma
5. Function of Brain stem
6. Series of test involved during brain death declaration
7. Apnoea Test
8. Nurse's responsibilities during Organ Donation
9. Grief Counseling
10. Organs can be donated
11. Eye Donation
12. Importance of Donor Card
13. Information given through organ donation Helpline
The nurses raised few questions during the session like:
1. Ischemic time of organs and
2. Whole body donation
Nearly 40 nurses supported the noble causes and promised to increase the rate of eye donation
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