Bioethics
Online ISSN : 2189-695X
Print ISSN : 1343-4063
ISSN-L : 1343-4063
The transition of the attitude toward brain death and organ transplantation through the experience with nursing cares
Hiromi UCHIDA
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2000 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 120-127

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In the present-day medication the diversified values is complicated. Through the organ transplant that we are faced with hard choice between a life of a donor and a life of a recipient, we are under the necessity of thinking over the sense of values in life. I suppose that any experience with nursing care of the other has influence on our sense of values in life and health. So the shift in consciousness of 203 nursing students concerned brain death and organ transplantation at the before and the end of clinical teaching of nursing was examined during 4 years from 1994 to 1998. The results showed there were decrease of nursing students who approve brain death and organ transplantation at the end of clinical teaching of nursing on the all years. It could not find clearly the links between nursing function-structure and the factor of the shift. From this study, it was indicated that providing the information and learning about the general idea of nursing care based such as a knowledge with experience, and a view of humankind with holism, should open a new way for total judgement on the problems of health and life.
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2000 Japan Association for Bioethics
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