Open AccessLived Experiences of Iranian Nurses Caring for Brain Death Organ Donor Patients: Caring as “Halo of Ambiguity and Doubt”
Author(s) -
Zahra Keshtkaran,
Farkhondeh Sharif,
Elham Navab,
Sakineh Gholamzadeh
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
global journal of health science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1916-9744
pISSN - 1916-9736
DOI - 10.5539/gjhs.v8n7p281
Subject(s) - denial , thematic analysis , ambiguity , psychology , medicine , qualitative research , nursing , social psychology , psychotherapist , sociology , social science , linguistics , philosophy
Brain death is a concept in which its criteria have been expressed as documentations in Harvard Committee of Brain Death. The various perceptions of caregiver nurses for brain death patients may have effect on the chance of converting potential donors into actual organ donors.