Right to fight
Article Abstract:
Human rights should be an issue for all health-care workers, but while there is often concern over wider human rights issues, this concern is often not expressed in day-to-day clinical nursing practice. In many countries, health-care workers are often the victims of repression, but health-care workers can also be involved in violating the rights of their patients: for example by failing to respect their rights to privacy and dignity. For UK nurses, there is a particular danger in that freedom is taken for granted in the UK and thus not actively considered as being a part of health care.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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Everybody's business
Article Abstract:
UK nurses should be aware of human rights issues in order to support nurses in other countries who may be victims of abuse, but there is no training and little information to help nurses debate the links between abuse and human rights. Human rights abuses can include political cases, where nurses have 'disappeared' or been tortured for their political views. Nurses often have to care for victims of human rights abuse, with little or no support. Closer to home, human rights abuse can also mean not respecting patients' culture, dignity or their rights to privacy and information.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1995
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What price protection?
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Nurses face an ethical dilemma if they suspect a colleague is suffering from mental illness or they know something about a colleague's medical history which may affect the welfare of patients. Every situation is different and therefore definitive rules cannot be set down. A balance has to be reached between keeping staff medical history confidential and patient safety. Occupational health departments are not trusted by staff because the information may be used to fire staff. Unison wants staff to have access to confidential, preventative services.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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