UAGA Calif. Health & Safety CMS Collaborative Joint Commission 400

In California an eligible donor may register his/her wishes on which registry?

Donate Life California Or Done Vide California

The Donate Life California Donor registry is what type of registry and does not require the consent of any other person?

First person consent

The minimum time frame for a well documented diligent search to locate family or LNOK is how many hours?

12 Hours

The UAGA has expanded the list of who can make the decision for a non-registered donor to include the following individuals

Grandchildren Close friends who exhibited special care and concern for the deceased person

When should a hospital provide the LNOK a written statement regarding the possible brain death of their loved one?

When is upon request, but no later than shortly after the treating physician has determined the potential fro brain death is imminent

A “reasonable brief period” is defined as when?

What is the amount of time afforded to gather family or next of kin at the patient’s bedside?

A hospital must do what if a patient’s LNOK voices any special religious or cultural practices and concerns surrounding the issue of brain death?

How to make reasonable efforts to accommodate those religious & cultural practices and concerns

What does it mean for a hospital to notify OneLegacy about a death or imminent death in a timely manner?

Call within one hour

Imminent death is defined as?

Patient with severe, acute brain injury Requires mechanical ventilation Physicians are evaluating a diagnosis of brain death Physician has ordered that life sustaining treatment by withdrawn pursuant to family’s decision

Who is responsible to screen donors for medical suitabiliity?

The Organ Procurement Organization (OPO)

The individual who initiates the donation discussion must be whom?

The OPO representative or a trained designated requestor

The responsibility to develop protocols for organ and tissue donation is whose?

The Hospitals

The JC requires the hospital to partner with OPO’s with the what activities

Maintaining of patients Medical record reviews Education efforts

Under JC regulations hospitals are responsible to do what for organ / tissue donors?

Maintaining a potential organ / tissue donor

What is required by TJC to be posted in units?

The National Benchmark for organ donation conversion rate is:

75%

Donation after Cardiac Deaths (DCD) should be what percent of hospital’s overall organ donors

10%

Is a care planning meeting, takes place on every single potential donor case, prior to any discussion of donation with patient’s family

The number one reason why families say ‘no’ to donation is

Lack of trust and caring of the hospital staff AACN, vol 22, no 6, Dec 2002