TY - JOUR T1 - Communication and support from healthcare professionals is essential for living kidney donors JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 75 LP - 75 DO - 10.1136/eb-2015-102123 VL - 19 IS - 3 AU - Jennifer Lumsdaine Y1 - 2016/07/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/19/3/75.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Agerskov H, Ludvigsen MS, Bistrup C, et al. Living kidney donors’ experiences while undergoing evaluation for donation: a qualitative study. J Clin Nurs 2015;24:2258–67.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedThe unique situation where an individual's health is being assessed for the benefit of another raises both physical and psychological issues.The roles of healthcare professionals are key to supporting the donor throughout the evaluation process, ensuring the experience is positive.The drive to increase the number of living donor kidney transplants is partly in response to the international organ shortage and the superior results with transplantation of kidneys from living donors.1 There is worldwide consensus that live kidney donor safety is paramount due to … ER -