ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

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Abstract

This paper intends to facilitate understand what safety, dignity, respect and compassion is, and is not, and serving to consider other respect aspects within practice and interactions in the nursing care.

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Introduction

Safety, dignity, respect and compassion of patient is a vital and essential quality care component. There are a number of challenges faced by health care providers in the health care environment in attempting to keep safety of patients. In nursing care, the issue of sensitivity and empathy emerge as a challenge in treating patients with the respect and dignity that they deserve. Clients and patients cannot obtain a compassionate care without a strong emphasize on these vital nursing aspects.

It is at times not difficult to determine when dignity is not vital to nursing practice; however, require enhancing knowledge of what this really means to nurses and patients. Such standpoints may be very unlike and may be influenced by changing priorities of healthcare. The therapeutic and trust building, relationships of patient-centered, of that non-judgmental outlook is a main element, is necessary in relation to clients and patients sentiment, which they are required to treat with respect. It is necessary that respect and dignity are placed on the top of the agenda of nursing.

Discussion

According to Sturdy (2007, p. 9) argue that undignified care is related with treatment, de-personalisation and invisibility of the person as an entity. He also asserts that this may include abuse and humiliation, as well as mechanistic and narrow approaches to care. It is significant to determine what patients really recognize as dignity or dignified care. Some view dignity as the relationship between need to ask for help and increasing dependence, hope maintenance.

Mental health service was apparent that privacy compromise was actually compromising patients' dignity and as a result, this required to be addressed. Staffs of nursing also took this perspective and take an active role in carrying out a change in nursing practice. Lack of privacy, or the having privacy of patients, is also addressed by Charles-Edwards & Brotchie (2005, pp. 36-43) with reference to the children nursing, and make out three means in which privacy can be addressed.

Physical Privacy - engages avoidance of embarrassment and for modesty protection over bodily respect and functions when carried out procedures of invasion.

Information Privacy - which involve confidentiality regarding children, as well as how this infringe the parental rights. Parents and children have to be viewed in isolation or separate identities. Since, their priorities and concerns may be dissimilar.

Family Privacy - in which the family has liberty of unnecessary involvement by the State. This final point apparently has to be seen with compassion and the well-being of a child has to be treated as paramount. Traditionally, children have not been considered as having their own needs of privacy, and as a result their dignity, respect their rights, might have been breached.

In case dignity, safety, and respect are not present in the context of care, patients feel discomfort, devalued and ...