Dignity and Respect for Dignity - Two Key Health Professional Values: implications for nursing Practice

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 587-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Health Care Practice ◽  
Doctrine Of The Mean ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Other Regarding

It is argued that dignity can be considered both subjectively, taking into account individual differences and idiosyncrasies, and objectively, as the foundation of human rights. Dignity can and should also be explored as both an other-regarding and a self-regarding value: respect for the dignity of others and respect for one’s own personal and professional dignity. These two values appear to be inextricably linked. Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean enables nurses to reflect on the appropriate degree of respect for the dignity of others and of respect for themselves. To develop an understanding of the rationale for and the significance and implications of dignity in health care practice, a view of human nature is proposed that implies vulnerability and fallibility, and that urges that an ethic of aspiration is embraced. Anonymized vignettes are included to illustrate points about the everyday nature of dignity.

scholarly journals Humanoid Nurse Robots and Compassion: Dialogical Conversation with Rozzano Locsin

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
Trecella May Macalam ◽  
Rozzano Locsin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Health Care Practice ◽  
The Future ◽  
Technological Competency ◽  
Intelligent Healthcare

It is important that in the future, nursing practice is framed with the humanoid nurse robot (HNR) functionality as a sure partner capable of expressing compassion that mimics human persons. Sr. Trecella May Macalam, SPC, a member of the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres congregation, and doctoral student of St. Paul University Philippines and Dr. Rozzano Locsin, nurse theorist and author of the theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing (TCCN) discuss the futurist idea of HNR’s capability to express compassion in nursing. Locsin’s theory has inspired the utility of advancing machine technologies in health care practice. Framing explanations and descriptions between human persons and HNRs as intelligent healthcare robots (IHRs) stimulate future nursing care in many ways. The theory of TCCN inspired “knowing persons as caring” as a process of nursing. In the future, this theory will most likely influence the inevitability and dependency of nursing through compassion in nursing by HNRs.

scholarly journals Development of the ITHACA Toolkit for monitoring human rights and general health care in psychiatric and social care institutions

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Randall ◽  
G. Thornicroft ◽  
L. Burti ◽  
H. Katschnig ◽  
O. Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Services ◽  
General Health ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Health Care Practice ◽  
Care Assessment

Background.Human rights violations are commonly experienced by people in psychiatric and social care institutions. States and private organizations providing such health and social services must comply with international human rights law. Monitoring of such compliance is increasingly recognized as a vital component in ensuring that rights are respected and violations are brought out in the open, remedied and prevented.Aims.The Institutional Treatment, Human Rights and Care Assessment (ITHACA) project produced a method to document violations and good practice with the aim of preventing human rights violations and improving general health care practice in psychiatric and social care institutions (www.ithacastudy.eu).Methods.A methodological and implementation study conducted across 15 European countries developed and assessed the ITHACA Toolkit in monitoring visits to 87 mental health organizations.Results.The toolkit is available in 13 European languages and has demonstrated applicability in a range of contexts and conditions. The information gathered through monitoring visits can document both good practice and areas for improvement.Conclusions.The ITHACA Toolkit is an acceptable and feasible method for the systematic monitoring of human rights and general health care in psychiatric and social care institutions that explicitly calls for the participation of service users in the monitoring of human rights violations and general health care practice.

Health care and global justice

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Health Care Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
Cast Doubt

AbstractAfter outlining his experience in the world of bioethics, the author draws on his role in the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee to explain the new Universal Declaration of Bioethics, adopted by UNESCO in 2005. He describes it as the first global attempt to reconcile the differing sources of bioethical principles: health-care practice and experience and universal human rights. Whilst collecting, and accepting, some criticism of the text of the Declaration, the author sees its chief values as lying in the wider ethical issues that it reflected of concern to the community, the world and biosphere as well as in the adjustment of health-care approaches for consistency with the growing impact of universal human rights law. Whilst acknowledging the differing social experiences of people in different regions of the world, he invokes Amartya Sen to cast doubt on the notion of specific ‘Asian values’, whether in bioethics or human rights.

A Measure of Family Functioning for Health Care Practice and Research in Israel

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Linder-Pelz ◽  
S. Levy ◽  
A. Tamir ◽  
T. Spenser ◽  
L. M. Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Health Care Practice

Ethical Visions for the Development of Patient Care in the Health Care Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Richard Moreno ◽  
◽  
Cristinel Ștefănescu ◽  
Beatrice Gabriela Ioan ◽  
Mariana Cuceu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Health Care Practice

scholarly journals Internal barriers to efficiency: why disinvestments are so difficult. Identifying and addressing internal barriers to disinvestment of health technologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Bjørn Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Economics ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Health Care Practice ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Sound Foundation ◽  
Internal Barriers ◽  
Efficient Care

Abstract Although efficiency is a core concept in health economics, its impact on health care practice still is modest. Despite an increased pressure on resource allocation, a widespread use of low-value care is identified. Nonetheless, disinvestments are rare. Why is this so? This is the key question of this paper: why are disinvestments not more prevalent and improving the efficiency of the health care system, given their sound foundation in health economics, their morally important rationale, the significant evidence for a long list of low-value care and available alternatives? Although several external barriers to disinvestments have been identified, this paper looks inside us for mental mechanisms that hamper rational assessment, implementation, use and disinvestment of health technologies. Critically identifying and assessing internal inclinations, such as cognitive biases, affective biases and imperatives, is the first step toward a more rational handling of health technologies. In order to provide accountable and efficient care we must engage in the quest against the figments of our minds; to disinvest in low-value care in order to provide high-value health care.

scholarly journals Ongoing processes of managing consent: the empirical ethics of using video-recording in clinical practice and research

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 179-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle O'Reilly ◽  
Nicola Parker ◽  
Ian Hutchby
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Empirical Ethics ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Reflecting Team ◽  
Recording Equipment ◽  
Health Care Practice ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Sensitive Topics

Using video to facilitate data collection has become increasingly common in health research. Using video in research, however, does raise additional ethical concerns. In this paper we utilize family therapy data to provide empirical evidence of how recording equipment is treated. We show that families made a distinction between what was observed through the video by the reflecting team and what was being recorded onto videotape. We show that all parties actively negotiated what should and should not go ‘on the record’, with particular attention to sensitive topics and the responsibility of the therapist. Our findings have important implications for both clinical professionals and researchers using video data. We maintain that informed consent should be an ongoing process and with this in mind we present some arguments pertaining to the current debates in this field of health-care practice.

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