The perception of nursing-students concerning the living organ transplantation

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Yuri Wada, Wakako Fujita and Ayumi Ishii

Sonoda Women’s University, Japan
Osaka Shinai College, Japan
Senrikinran University, Japan

: J Nurs Patient Care

Abstract

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Statement of Problem: The living organ transplantation has gradually been a part of common medical treatments in Japan. The nurses play a significant role on their nursing care for the donor and family members who will have physically and mentally problems. However, the number of university and college facilities which provide the nursing education for the living organ transplantation was only 22% of the university facilities of nursing in Japan. The purpose of this study it to examine the nursing-students’ imagination and the way of gathering the information of living organ transplantation. Methods: The focus group interviews for 19 nursing-students who have not received the education about the living organ transplantation were performed. We analyzed the data with ward frequency analysis software called KH coder. Results: Co-occurrence network and Hierarchical cluster analysis of ward were analyzed from the contents of interviews. The relation between television, television drama and imagination and also fear, oversea and money is showed. From the order with frequency list of word, it was oneself, think, organ, transplantation and human. From the order with frequency list of adjective word, two characteristic words such as fear and difficulty were identified. We focused on these adjective words and analyzed the words by the KWIC concordance. As a result, there were two meanings of fear. One of them was the transplantation itself such as a pain and health and another meaning was that the students do not have an opportunity to receive the education about the living organ transplantation as the professional nurses in the future. There was the meaning of difficulty which was the decision making of organ donation as a donor, recipient and their family members. Conclusion: The nursing-students have passively built their perceptions concerning the living organ transplantation by the information from the television and television drama. However, there are the lack of knowledge and skills for the living organ transplantation to become a nurse in the future. We consider renovating the education system including the living organ transplantation.

Biography

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Yuri Wada is a registered nurse and she is working at Sonoda Womens University, Japan. Her study topic which is the decision making for the living organ transplantation has been influenced by her experiences as a nurse. She has tried to build the caring method of the donor of living organ transplantation. Her recent study: Content analysis in communication by transplant coordinator supporting decision making of organ transplant donors, bulletin of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.

E-mail: y-wada@sonoda-u.ac.jp