Sharella Robinson (left) and Fiona Cox. Photo: Ken Irwin
When the life of a patient cannot be saved, part of an intensive care nurse's job can be to support families preparing to donate their loved ones' organs.
But Sharella Robinson, an intensive care nurse at The Alfred hospital, has often found it difficult to contain her emotions while juggling end-of-life care with a family's need to say goodbye. To find out how other nurses coped, Ms Robinson and colleague Fiona Cox surveyed 50 other colleagues in The Alfred's intensive care unit and found many shared the same difficulties.
Those surveyed felt organ and tissue donation offered a chance to salvage something positive from often tragic circumstances, but they described their roles as complex and emotionally taxing.
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