Defining Death - Off the Charts
My first encounter with brain death was back in the early 1970s. I was a new RN in a shock-trauma unit. We admitted a 17-year-old young woman who had attempted suicide by jumping out of a fifth-floor window. If it wasn’t awful enough, I remember it was Thanksgiving weekend and she had been home from
Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, FAAN, editor-in-chief (emerita)
