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A 3 page research paper that looks at this issue. Nursing practice, in regards to transplant medicine, involves numerous potential problems. Not only does the nurse have to be aware of possible medical complications for both the recipient and the donor in cases where a relative donates living tissue, but the entire subject of live organ donation is potentially troublesome due to ethnical considerations. This is particularly true when the donor is the child of the intended recipient; however, ethical consideration should always be scrutinized in such cases. The writer examines a case study and discusses ethics. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the recipient and the donor in cases where a relative donates living tissue, but the entire subject of live organ donation is potentially troublesome due to ethnical considerations. This is
particularly true when the donor is the child of the intended recipient; however, ethical consideration should always be scrutinized in such cases. Rosell (2006) offers the case study involving
a middle-aged Korean-American dialysis patient and the donation of a kidney from his 20-year-old son, John. In this case study, Gladys Jones was the renal transplant coordinator and an RN.
Jones became concerned about the ethics in this case because Mr. Cho had already received one kidney, which his body had rejected (Rosell, 2006). Mr. Cho, and to a certain
extent his son also, had a history of "multiple substance abuse with renal toxicity" (Rosell, 2006, p. 68). While it has been customary to screen donated blood and organs for
infectious disease, only in recent years has the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required the same sort of scrutiny be applied to other tissue donations as well (Checking, 2004). It
is now mandatory for tissue banks to screen donors for HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CID) (Checking, 2004). John received a clean bill of health;
however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have serious concerns as to whether or not coercion
had been used to persuade John to become his fathers donor (Rosell, 2006). Also, Jones expressed concerns over the ethics of John sacrificing a kidney to his father when his
fathers rejection of the first kidney can be traced to continued substance abuse and "hard living," prompting a recurrence of renal disease (Rosell, 2006). Jones demonstrates exemplary nursing standards in
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