Undergraduate nursing students' knowledge and attitudes towards organ donation in Korea: Implications for education.

Organ donation from brain dead patients is a contentious issue in Korea within the cultural context of Confucian beliefs. Each year thousands of patients wait for organ donation note poor donation rates and importance of nurses in identifying potential donors. It is therefore important to identify knowledge levels and attitudes towards organ donation from brain dead patients of nursing students as future health workers.

Korean health professionals' attitudes and knowledge toward organ donation and transplantation.

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyse Korean health professionals' attitudes and knowledge of organ donation and transplantation. An exploratory study using semi-structured interviews with nine key informants from three major hospitals which provide transplant services in Seoul was conducted. Overall, there was a lack of knowledge by Korean health professionals surrounding brain death and the organ procurement process.