Fostering dignity and respect

Fostering Dignity
And
Respect

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
QUESTION 1...................................................................................................................................1
The ethical concepts which need to consider in Mrs. Wang’s situation and kind of strategies
could those involved in her support employ to support and respect her dignity.........................1
QUESTION 2 .................................................................................................................4
The professionals are to maintain effective communication and their interpersonal skills so the
best care outcomes possible for Mrs. Wang................................................................................4
QUESTION 3 ................................................................................................................................7
Explain how this case study has contributed to learning, self-development and practice in
understanding dignity and respect by using a reflective or learning model,...............................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
The dignity and respect is necessary to promote in health care settings while delivering
care to patients. The health care professionals must ensure that care and treatment are provide by
considering people's dignity and respect. The people are highly concern about their dignity and
respect when they attain services in health and social care services. So, dignity and respect is
important in health care settings to treat people effectively. It helps in developing trust,
communication and it increases well being of individuals (Lohne, 2017). This can be develop
through by considering various ethics. In this assignment, the responsibilities and ethics of nurse
of Guy's and St Thomas NHS foundation with respect to patient Mrs. Wang is cover. The health
care practitioners have some power and duty which are need to be consider at time of providing
care to patients. In addition to this, there are some interpersonal skills of professionals which are
need to maintain so that best and positive outcome of treatment of patients can be occur.
Moreover, how these aspects can help a practitioner in developing their own skills are also cover
in this.
QUESTION 1
The ethical concepts which need to consider in Mrs. Wang’s situation and kind of strategies
could those involved in her support employ to support and respect her dignity.
The ethics refers to consideration of attitude and behaviour of health care practitioner. It
involves about valuing freedom, rights, and responsibilities of patients so that good quality of
care can be delivered to them. This ethics are should be consider in health care settings as it
reduce issues of health care. This also help health care professional to develop their own
reflection. It helps in developing relationship, program and work setting in health care
foundation (Evans and Vaandering, 2016). It health care professional consider ethics then it can
help them to develop relationship, communication with patients which help in delivering
effective care to them. There are some ethic principles which are necessary to value by health
professionals so that dignity and respect of patients can be maintain such as autonomy, virtue,
etc.
 The autonomy refers to rights of a person in their treatment from which they can take
their own decisions of their well being. It also includes confidentiality, autonomy
which are need to be valued by care practitioner of patients.
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 In virtue ethics, the tradition and character of a person are to be consider as each
individual has different character and tradition.
In context of Mrs. Wang, has suffering from cancer of lungs. The health care
professionals state that she does not have enough time to live as cancer is occur at last stage. She
also having communication problem as her first language is Mandarin. She have some
consideration that her treatment should occur in mandarin language so that she can communicate
with care practitioner easily. The patients have some rights in their health treatment from which
they can take effective decisions while providing care to them (Kostera and Pirson, 2017). It is
the responsibilities of heath care professionals to consider these values so that treatment can
deliver in an appropriate manner. In given case, two sons and family of patients wants to
concealed conditions of her by telling about little and non-malignant tumour in her body. The
health care practitioner significantly consider rights of patients by providing appropriate
information to her. This will help care practitioner in maintaining dignity and respect of patients.
There are some ethics concept which need to consider by professionals as patients. It
includes autonomy, virtue ethics of patients. In given case, the patient is unaware about her
health condition from which she can't take effective treatment according to her. So the
professionals should maintain ethics by providing knowledge about her health condition so that
she can take part in her treatment process (Stephens and Kanov, 2017). The patients has a
different personality as she has mandarin first language and her family is highly concerned about
her health condition. So the practitioner are necessary to communicate in her language so that
she can understand health condition and treatment better.
There are some ethic principle of care which enhance health care and treatment decisions.
These are described below.
 Decision making:- the patient with this ethic have the right to decline any treatment that
are providing to them. So, it is necessary to analyse the capacity of a person to take
effective decision in their health services. With this, patients can take straight forward
decision rather than complex decisions which help them in their well being. In this, health
care practitioner can not force patients in changing their decisions regarding their
treatment.
 Right to refuse treatment:- the each individual has right to refuse care and treatment that
are not satisfied them. With this, rights of people can be protect who are not able to take
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