New Jersey Heroes Act

HeroesAct Podcast 4- Communication Strategies: Authorization and Communication with Donor Family Patrick M. Buddle, MD discusses how health care clinicians can effectively communicates the facts about organ and tissue donation to patients and their families when speaking to them about organ donation. In this podcast, he advises on how to discuss certain racial, ethnic and religious issues, as well as discuss with the process of consenting to organ donation and making end-of-life decisions for patients and their families.

HeroesAct Podcast 3- Donor and Organ Management: Best Practices for Donor and Organ Management Oscar V. Colon, RN CPTC, discusses the responsibility of an organ procurement organization (OPO) in facilitating organ and tissue donation, and evaluating potential donors. In this podcast, he articulates the role of the hospital and hospital staff in the donation process, describes the key partnership between health care providers and the OPO in making donation possible, and identifies the major objectives of donor management and key milestones in the process.

HeroesAct Podcast 2- Clinical Practice Guidelines: Determining the Eligibility and Medical Suitability of Organ Donors Michael E. Shapiro, MD, FACS, identifies clinical referral triggers for organ donation, and the process for determining medical suitability of donors, recognizing the conditions for medically suitable organ or tissue donations. In this podcast, he describes the process for determining brain death, the physiologic challenges after brain death occurs, and discusses the role of donation after cardiac death.

HeroesAct Podcast 1- Legal and Ethical Standards: Meeting the Standards for Organ Donation—Why Should Physicians and Nurses Act? Michael E. Shapiro, MD, FACS and Christina Woodward Strong, Esq, discuss the need for organ donation, and the role of health care providers in encouraging donation. In this podcast, they describe the role of the organ procurement organization (OPO) and regulatory bodies in managing the donation process. In addition, they discuss the provisions and impact of the New Jersey Hero Act and the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act on authorizing donations.