About patient dignity

Kurdish Maternity Nurses’ Perspectives About Human Dignity

Background: Ethical standards of nursing profession emphasize that taking care of patients, showing respectful behavior, and preserving patients’ human dignity are important nursing priorities. Furthermore, since time immemorial, humanistic thinkers have always paid close attention to the issues of humanity and human dignity. Despite the emphasis of nursing texts on the importance of pres...

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Nurses’ commitment to respecting patient dignity

BACKGROUND Although respecting human dignity is a cornerstone of all nursing practices, industrialization has gradually decreased the attention paid to this subject in nursing care. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate nurses' commitment to respecting patient dignity in hospitals of Isfahan, Iran. METHODS This descriptive-analytical study was conducted in hospitals of Isfahan. Ov...

Patient dignity: everyone’s business in healthcare

The patient dignity inventory: a novel way of measuring dignity-related distress in palliative care.

Quality palliative care depends on a deep understanding of distress facing patients nearing death. Yet, many aspects of psychosocial, existential and spiritual distress are often overlooked. The aim of this study was to test a novel psychometric--the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI)--designed to measure various sources of dignity-related distress among patients nearing the end of life. Using sta...