Dignity In Healthcare Research Articles

Dignity in Healthcare: A Practical Approach for Nurses and MidwivesDignity in Healthcare: A Practical Approach for Nurses and Midwives Nurses and Midwives Milika Ruth Matiti Lesley Baillie (Eds) Radcliffe Publishing £24.99 294pp 9781846193903 1846193907

Dignity in Healthcare: A Practical Approach for Nurses and MidwivesDignity in Healthcare: A Practical Approach for Nurses and Midwives Nurses and Midwives Milika Ruth Matiti Lesley Baillie (Eds) Radcliffe Publishing £24.99 294pp 9781846193903 1846193907

Dignity in Healthcare - a Practical Approach for Nurses and Midwives Milika Ruth Matiti Dignity in Healthcare - a Practical Approach for Nurses and Midwives and Lesley Baillie (Eds) Radcliffe Publishing £24.99 294pp 9781846193903 1846193907 [Formula: see text

DIGNITY IS important for all patients of all ages but it can mean something different to each person.

Dignity in healthcare – a practical approach for nurses and midwives Milika Ruth Matiti Dignity in healthcare – a practical approach for nurses and midwives and LesleyBaillie (Eds) Radcliffe Publishing294pp£24.99978 1 8461 9390 39781846193903

Dignity in healthcare – a practical approach for nurses and midwives Milika Ruth Matiti Dignity in healthcare – a practical approach for nurses and midwives and LesleyBaillie (Eds) Radcliffe Publishing294pp£24.99978 1 8461 9390 39781846193903

Dignity in Healthcare – A Practical Approach for Nurses and MidwivesDignity in Healthcare – A Practical Approach for Nurses and Midwives

Dignity in Healthcare – A Practical Approach for Nurses and MidwivesDignity in Healthcare – A Practical Approach for Nurses and Midwives

Dignity Promotion and Beneficence

The concept of dignity has occasioned a robust conversation in recent healthcare scholarship. When viewed as a whole, research on dignity in healthcare has engaged each of the four bioethical principles popularized by Beauchamp and Childress, but has paid the least attention to beneficence. In this paper, we look at dignity and beneficence. We focus on the dignity promotion component of a model of dignity derived from a grounded theory study. After describing the study and presenting a precis of the resulting model, we review the principle of beneficence and look at the ways in which the notion of dignity promotion can be used to complement our understanding of this principle. Specifically, we explore what we can learn from dignity promotion about the relational nature of beneficence in healthcare and how dignity promotion can be marshaled to help address the epistemological quandary of soft paternalism.

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RCN launches campaign for dignity in health care.

The RCN last month launched its biggest campaign ever to put dignity at the centre of nursing care.

The feasibility of care mapping to improve care for physically ill older people in hospital

providing dignity in health care for older people is an important policy and clinical objective but requires implementation using reliable methods. Our objective was to investigate the feasibility of a person-centred observational practice development method known as dementia care mapping (DCM) in hospital wards for physically ill older people, including those who do not have dementia. DCM (version 8) was conducted in three elderly care general hospital wards and in two community hospitals. Summary statistics were calculated from the DCM data to assess feasibility and adequacy of the DCM coding system. fifty-eight participants were mapped for 84 observation hours/414 patient hours (4,968 5-min time frames). There was a relatively high proportion (942/2,376; 40% time frames) of missing data in the community hospitals due to time patients spent away from the area under observation. All 3,624 of the time frames with patient-observed data could be coded utilising the existing Behaviour Category and Mood/Engagement Value coding frameworks. the results from this preliminary study are promising and indicate that DCM is potentially feasible in elderly care general hospital wards, without the need for major modification.

Exposição humana ao mercúrio na Amazônia brasileira: uma perspectiva histórica

The objective of the present article was to present the most important data generated by a multicentric study carried out by Brazilian researchers who, with the support of national and international institutions, worked during the 1990s to describe human exposure to mercury in gold mining areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Three sets of procedures were followed with residents of the Tocantins and Xingu river basins: (1) clinical examination, based on a standardized protocol and performed by a single researcher, in order to identify five basic levels of contamination; (2) determination of mercury levels in blood, hair, and urine, using atomic absorption spectrophotometry (Xingu Project); and (3) investigation of genotoxicity by using four cytogenetic indicators. During the first stage, 41 individuals were studied. Mercury was found in miners and their family members. Contamination was significantly associated with occupation and showed a differential correlation with genotoxicity indicators. After that, the Xingu project, which encompassed 625 individuals, focused on 417 Kayapó natives from the Gorotire and Djudjetiktire villages; 142 miners; and 66 riverine individuals (ribeirinhos). The highest levels of methylmercury in hair and total mercury in blood and urine were found among the Indian population. Contamination with inorganic forms of mercury was also observed in the blood, hair, and urine of Indians. Following a specific recommendation from the World Health Organization, special attention was given to pregnant Gorotire and Djudjetiktire women, who, although not directly exposed to mercury vapors, showed considerable levels of mercury intoxication. Despite this worrisome scenario, a number of social achievements in the 1990s point to new standards of dignity in health care and of social ethics in Brazil that could benefit everyone, including the victims of environmental injury.

Dignity in health care: reality or rhetoric

Increasingly, the term ‘dignity’ is becoming a part of contemporary discussions of health care. Phrases such as ‘respect for human dignity’, ‘treatment with dignity’, ‘death with dignity’ and the ‘right to dignity’ are so commonplace as to have almost become clichés. This is especially so in the context of older people. In the UK, the NHS Plan uses the term ‘dignity’ on a number of occasions (Chapter 15 is entitled ‘Dignity, security and independence in old age’) and the National Service Framework for Older People explicitly mentions dignity in relation to person-centred care. However, practice has often failed to measure up to this much-cited aspiration.