Understanding and safeguarding patient dignity in intensive care

Background:Dignity has been highlighted in previous research as one of the most important ethical concerns in nursing care. According to Eriksson, dignified caring is related to treating the patient as a unique human being and respecting human value. Intensive care unit patients are vulnerable to th...

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Authors: Nyholm, Linda (Author) ; Koskinen, Camilla A-L (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2017
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 408-418
Further subjects:B intensive care
B Nurses
B patient dignity
B Caring science
B Hermeneutics
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