‘True dignity’ and ‘respect-worthiness’

Death, Dignity, and Respect

Ethics education in advanced practice nursing: respect for human dignity.

Ethics education is an essential component of academic programs that prepare nurses for advanced practice; the concept of respect for human dignity is integral to this education. Sixty-three graduate students enrolled in their first course of a nurse practitioner program completed a researcher-developed Ethics Questionnaire that was designed to elicit their baseline ethics-related knowledge, in...

Statistical power with respect to true sample and true population paths: a PLS-based SEM illustration

Monte Carlo experiments aimed at assessing the statistical power of structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques typically focus on true population path coefficients, ignoring true sample path coefficients. We demonstrate the limitations stemming from such practice in statistical power assessments. This is done in the context of SEM techniques employing the partial least squares (PLS) method, ...

Dignity and respect for nurses with different levels of experience from physicians, colleagues, patients and their family members

Background and Purpose: Experience and clinical competence are the important factors affecting the level of dignity and respect for nurses. This study aimed to evaluate the observance rate of respect for nurses from physicians, colleagues, patients and their family members. Methods: This study was conducted on 200 nurses selected by census sampling from hospitals of Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran...

Respect, compassion and dignity: the foundations of ethical and professional caring.

Throughout 2011, and for much of this year, the national and professional press have been dominated by reports of failures in health and social care. Stories have focussed on the avoidable harm and disturbing cruelty suffered by individuals and the distress of distraught families seeking answers in the light of systemic organisational failure on an incredible scale (Francis 2010, CQC 2011a, CQC...