Dignity-enhancing nursing care

Patients Dignity in Nursing

In previous issues of nursing and midwifery studies, several articles have published on nursing ethics and ethical issues in caring. Ghorbani et al. studied nurses' perception of the ethical environment. They suggested that hospital managers need to discover better ways to promote ethical environment of the healthcare organizations (1). Berkiten Ergin et al. have also concluded that cultural di...

Nursing care systems: enhancing care processes in practice and management.

OBJECTIVE To summarize aspects of nursing informatics application and introduces challenges that are currently being addressed by nurses around the world. METHODS Key contributions in the field are surveyed and put in the perspective of the IMIA Nursing Informatics Strategic Plan. RESULTS As a discipline, nursing informatics offers real and practical instruments and opportunities to deliver...

patients dignity in nursing

Dignity in care: where next for nursing ethics scholarship and research?

Dignity is recognised as both a central and also a contested value in bioethics discourse. The aim of this manuscript is to examine some of the key strands of the extensive body of dignity scholarship and research literature as it relates to nursing ethics and practice. The method is a critical appraisal of selected articles published in Nursing Ethics and other key manuscripts and texts identi...

Maintaining dignity in vulnerability: A qualitative study of the residents' perspective on dignity in nursing homes.

BACKGROUND Older people, living in nursing homes, are exposed to diverse situations, which may be associated with loss of dignity. To help them maintain their dignity, it is important to explore, how dignity is preserved in such context. Views of dignity and factors influencing dignity have been studied from both the residents' and the care providers' perspective. However, most of these studies...