Engelsk titel: How to uphold patients' integrity when attending to personal hygiene
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Författare:
Houmark P
Email: houmark@mail.tele.dk
Språk: Dan
Antal referenser: 10
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 07123751
Sammanfattning
On the basis of a clinical narrative about personal hygiene and care philosophy by Kari Martinsen and Knud Eiler Løgstrup, the article takes up the issue of how, in practice, nurses can safeguard patients' integrity when they are given help with their personal hygiene. The article sets out the ethical significance of patients' integrity and nurses' person-oriented professionalism. It is shown that integrity refers to the fact that patients' inviolability and frankness are vulnerable and need to be safeguarded, while person-oriented professionalism requires nurses to protect a patient's integrity by means of the professional judgement based on sentient, registrative approach to the patient. Through analysis of a specific clinical example, Martinsen's care philosophy is used to elucidate nurses' ethical reflections and possible actions in a situation in which the integrity of a male patient is at stake both within and outside a nursing environment.