Opinions of Nurses about Organ Donation and their Professional Values

Aim: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the nurses' opinions about organ donation and their professional values. Methods: This study has been conducted on 120 nurses working in the Internal, Surgical and Intensive Care Clinics of a university hospital. The study data were collected by sociodemographic characteristics form, the beliefs about organ donation questionnaire and the Nursing Professional Values Scale-Revised (NPVS-R). The data have been evaluated by using SPSS program (version:22.0) and percentage, arithmetic mean, Chi-Square, Student's t-test, one-way ANOVA analyses have been carried out. Results: While 86.7% of the nurses stated that they wanted to donate their own organs, 94.7% said they wanted their relatives to donate their organs. The mean value of the nurses' professional values has been determined to be 95.10±25.41. The nurses wishing to donate organs have been found to have higher scores on the Professional Values Scale and the difference between the scores of the nurses not wishing to donate their organs has been determined to be statistically significant (p