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Author's Comment y interest in organ donation began while working as a nurse in the intensive care unit prior to entering medical school. I found it extremely frustrating that so many people died without their family being offered the option of M organ donation. To change this, I created a team of nurses called the TransLife Team, whose goal was to increase the awareness of the need for organ donation within the hospital, and to work one-on-one with the potential donor patient’s family, the neurosurgeons, and the organ procurement team. The number of donors increased with this approach, and the actual process of donation became much easier. Of even more importance to me, the satisfaction that the donor families felt was even more apparent. After nearly every organ recovery, I would receive letters and phone calls from donor families thank- ing the team for our efforts. One father of a 17-year-old called the morning after his son’s funeral. He related that the family just wanted to thank us, because were it not for their being able to achieve some good out of this situation, they didn’t know how they would have coped with their son’s death. Comments like this made all http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Family Medicine American Medical Association

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Bidigare, Susan A.
Archives of Family Medicine , Volume 9 (7) – Jul 1, 2000
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y interest in organ donation began while working as a nurse in the intensive care unit prior to entering medical school. I found it extremely frustrating that so many people died without their family being offered the option of M organ donation. To change this, I created a team of nurses called the TransLife Team, whose goal was to increase the awareness of the need for organ donation within the hospital, and to work one-on-one with the potential donor patient’s family, the...
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y interest in organ donation began while working as a nurse in the intensive care unit prior to entering medical school. I found it extremely frustrating that so many people died without their family being offered the option of M organ donation. To change this, I created a team of nurses called the TransLife Team, whose goal was to increase the awareness of the need for organ donation within the hospital, and to work one-on-one with the potential donor patient’s family, the neurosurgeons, and the organ procurement team. The number of donors increased with this approach, and the actual process of donation became much easier. Of even more importance to me, the satisfaction that the donor families felt was even more apparent. After nearly every organ recovery, I would receive letters and phone calls from donor families thank- ing the team for our efforts. One father of a 17-year-old called the morning after his son’s funeral. He related that the family just wanted to thank us, because were it not for their being able to achieve some good out of this situation, they didn’t know how they would have coped with their son’s death. Comments like this made all

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Published: Jul 1, 2000

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