Ethical Issues On Organ Donation
Ethical issues accompany with an individual's cultural belief, value and religion background which affect one's perception on organ transplantation. Someone may reject it and think it is against God or natural rule. I remembered that there was a movie about a male got heart transplantation from a female donor. His family, friends and even he felt that he had turned into another person because of his personality, behaviors and the way of thinking had been changed after the operation. Riether and Mahler (1995) indicated that “rumors, misconceptions, misinformation in the media and lack of information” were other factors affected people’s attitude toward organ donation. Religion such as Judaism permits and encourage organ transplants. (Riether
& Mahler, 1995) whereas Islamic demonstrated various attitudes toward transplantation because individual religious leaders and Muslim scholars hold different opinions toward organ transplantation. This attribute from the variable levels of knowledge on organ transplantation. (Robson at el, 2010). Education is advised to raise public awareness on organ donation. Ethical principle of beneficence is promoted to encourage altruism and saving of lives. Ertin at el. (2010) suggested to employ nurses as organ donation coordinators to provide public and health workers the information on organ donation and promote its importance. As a nurse, it is very important to take patient’s belief, value and right, as well as hers or his, toward organ transplant into the consideration when provide care. It is because they affect the patient’s outcome. According to McCrink (2010), nurses’ scopes and standards of practice are required to “bound by a professional code of ethics” (as cited in ANA, 2004). She also indicated that ethical nursing practice was incorporate in the foundation of nursing. If a nurse adhere to the guidance of ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (2015), the nurse is doing a right thing to achieve positive patient’s outcome. Moreover, a nurse is responsible, accountable maintain his or her integrity, he or she embody profession role of nursing.
& Mahler, 1995) whereas Islamic demonstrated various attitudes toward transplantation because individual religious leaders and Muslim scholars hold different opinions toward organ transplantation. This attribute from the variable levels of knowledge on organ transplantation. (Robson at el, 2010). Education is advised to raise public awareness on organ donation. Ethical principle of beneficence is promoted to encourage altruism and saving of lives. Ertin at el. (2010) suggested to employ nurses as organ donation coordinators to provide public and health workers the information on organ donation and promote its importance. As a nurse, it is very important to take patient’s belief, value and right, as well as hers or his, toward organ transplant into the consideration when provide care. It is because they affect the patient’s outcome. According to McCrink (2010), nurses’ scopes and standards of practice are required to “bound by a professional code of ethics” (as cited in ANA, 2004). She also indicated that ethical nursing practice was incorporate in the foundation of nursing. If a nurse adhere to the guidance of ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (2015), the nurse is doing a right thing to achieve positive patient’s outcome. Moreover, a nurse is responsible, accountable maintain his or her integrity, he or she embody profession role of nursing.