Proposition 71, Nursing Implications and Ethics

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This paper discusses the impact a given legislation (i.e. California's Proposition 71) has on nursing, particularly transplant nurses, the prevalent ethical issues surrounding stem cell research, its potential in transplant medicine and the inherent responsibilities nurses have in keeping patients' perspectives in check while buoying their hopes for better quality of life.

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"The approval of Proposition 71 in California will have a predictable effect throughout the scientific community down to the grassroots health care systems and ultimately the patient. The technology and impact of therapeutic stem cell transplant is not new. Bone marrow transplants can be thought of as the prototype stem cell transplant, harvesting entire colonies of hematopoietic stem cells from a donor. There are drawbacks to this from a nursing perspective, however. The nurse of a transplant patient, especially a pediatric patient must be aware that among the stressors the family may be going through are drastic lifestyle alterations, coping as a family, psychological strain on the parents, as well as an understandable financial burden (Wu, Mu, Tsay & Chiou, 2005). "

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