Reflection paper: how a nurse can show dignity and respect to a patient regardless of social, economic status or medical diagnosis.
Dignity is making sure that the patient is receiving medical care in a way that makes them feel safe and comfortable.
Respect is the way of treating other with deference in your daily interactions, putting in mind their values, opinions and preferences.
Nurses understand that all patients enjoy social and cultural rights necessary for their dignity and free development. ). Culturally competent nurses, however, recognize the harmful effects of ignorance, hate, ethnocentrism, prejudice, and bias on the health of their patients and patient populations. In many medical situations, patients and their families are anxious …show more content…
Now I am going to give some real examples about how to use the dignity with different people regardless of their medical condition, culture and religion. So I suppose there a pregnant lady coming to the delivery room and she is Muslim, and her husband requested a female doctor to be the delivering doctor, in this case if possible it is a mandatory for the nurse to convey the patient`s request to the treating physician if he was not a female doctor and female doctor should be assigned if available. The same example applied if we have a male patient came with a bleeding per rectum and needs cleaning, if he requested a male nurse, then a male nurse should be assigned if possible. The second example is when a Jewish patient admitted to the hospital, and the nurse was helping him ordering lunch, here if the patient asks for no pork, then the nurse need to respect his religious believes, and ask for pork free lunch. The third example is, when an alcoholic homeless patient comes to the emergency room in coma state, and after the patient regains his consciousness starts to take his clothes off, here the nurse needs to provide the medical gown and cover the patient`s body protecting his
Dignity is making sure that the patient is receiving medical care in a way that makes them feel safe and comfortable.
Respect is the way of treating other with deference in your daily interactions, putting in mind their values, opinions and preferences.
Nurses understand that all patients enjoy social and cultural rights necessary for their dignity and free development. ). Culturally competent nurses, however, recognize the harmful effects of ignorance, hate, ethnocentrism, prejudice, and bias on the health of their patients and patient populations. In many medical situations, patients and their families are anxious …show more content…
Now I am going to give some real examples about how to use the dignity with different people regardless of their medical condition, culture and religion. So I suppose there a pregnant lady coming to the delivery room and she is Muslim, and her husband requested a female doctor to be the delivering doctor, in this case if possible it is a mandatory for the nurse to convey the patient`s request to the treating physician if he was not a female doctor and female doctor should be assigned if available. The same example applied if we have a male patient came with a bleeding per rectum and needs cleaning, if he requested a male nurse, then a male nurse should be assigned if possible. The second example is when a Jewish patient admitted to the hospital, and the nurse was helping him ordering lunch, here if the patient asks for no pork, then the nurse need to respect his religious believes, and ask for pork free lunch. The third example is, when an alcoholic homeless patient comes to the emergency room in coma state, and after the patient regains his consciousness starts to take his clothes off, here the nurse needs to provide the medical gown and cover the patient`s body protecting his