Abstract
Background and objective: Nurses deal with complex human rights issues arising from difficult situations and ethical dilemmas involving patients, relatives, and health care professionals. Human rights education can enable nurses to understand principles of human rights and apply them at work in their efforts to provide high quality care. The objective for this study was to describe how human rights material was integrated into a professional ethics course for master degree nursing students and to facilitate nurse educators’ efforts to include such material in their courses.Methods: In this qualitative study, data consisted of responses to a human rights assignment by 23 nursing students at a university of applied sciences in Finland. Thematic analysis was used to identify patterns and themes from the assignment.Results: Participants’ consensus was that human rights education should be part of nursing curricula. Students described what they learned, identified similarities and differences between human rights principles and ethical codes, gave examples applying human rights principles to their work, and stated how they could better protect human rights of nurses and their patients.Conclusions: Learning about human rights reinforces nurses’ knowledge and application of ethical codes and increases their awareness of factors necessary for quality care.
Highlights
Health Organization has produced over 400 publications onSince the 1990s, a vast global literature[1,2,3,4,5,6,7] has emphasized applications of human rights to health
More recent articles have (1) health policy makers, administrators, and providers described rights-based approaches to health care for those should be knowledgeable about human rights and (2) polinear the end of life, lesbian and bisexual women, isolated cies and practice will be better if human rights principles are patients and elderly people, mothers with HIV, and those followed.[19]
Despite their lack of formal training, nurses have applied We applied a qualitative, thematic analysis method based on human rights principles to advocate for and describe qual- the procedures recommended by Braun and Clarke.[63,64] ity care for pain management,[46] mentally ill people,[47,48,49,50] those with intellectual disabilities,[51] elderly people,[52] and 2.3 Participants those with chronic respiratory failure.[53]
Summary
Health Organization has produced over 400 publications onSince the 1990s, a vast global literature[1,2,3,4,5,6,7] has emphasized applications of human rights to health. Nurses deal with complex human rights issues arising from difficult situations and ethical dilemmas involving patients, relatives, and health care professionals. The objective for this study was to describe how human rights material was integrated into a professional ethics course for master degree nursing students and to facilitate nurse educators’ efforts to include such material in their courses. Results: Participants’ consensus was that human rights education should be part of nursing curricula. Students described what they learned, identified similarities and differences between human rights principles and ethical codes, gave examples applying human rights principles to their work, and stated how they could better protect human rights of nurses and their patients. Conclusions: Learning about human rights reinforces nurses’ knowledge and application of ethical codes and increases their awareness of factors necessary for quality care
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