The right to be treated as an individual is about being your own person and not being put into a category. This right is about how the person feels and how they are treated. Patients should not be judged by anyone working at the surgery. For example, if a pregnant teenager came in, the doctors should treat her with the same respect and provide the same amount of care as they would with any other patient. Also, the right can be upheld by offering one-to-one appointments so that people can feel that their issue is being dealt with in a professional and personal manner.
The right to be allowed access to information about themselves means that if an individual wished to access their past records, they should not be upheld from that individual.
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This is about people being able to express their opinion and have it respected. For example, if a person did not wish to have a blood transfusion (e.g. Jehovah Witness), then that request should be acknowledged and upheld. Another example is someone requesting for a certain gendered doctor to see them. This may be because of personal reasons or simply preference.
The right to be respected is a very important right to people. It is about having their choices respected, or just being respected as a person. A patient can be respected by being addressed to formally and professionally or it can be having a doctor listen to what they have to say and respect it, not speaking to you in a rude and disrespectful manner. An example of this is if an individual that had caught an STI came into the GP, the doctor would have to treat them with their recovering in mind and not their
judgments of them. It is important to people because being respected means that they can receive the help they need while still having
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An example of this being upheld could be being treated with the same rights as everyone else and not being treated differently due to certain factors like situation or race. Another example could be employing a range of people with different genders, races, religions and beliefs. This is so that there is an ethnic mix.
'The right to be able to communicate using preferred methods' could be upheld by having the GP surgery contact you by your preferred method whether that be text, telephone, email, mail. Or it could be if a person would be to be communicated with by sign language, or if a person is in need of a language translator. This can make the patient feel more welcome and comfortable that the doctor will understand them and their problem will be dealt with.
A person in a GP surgery should not be made to feel awkward and uncomfortable. This is 'The right to be treated in a dignified way'. This can be upheld in a number of ways. Such as the doctor talking you though what he's doing (if he's doing an examination) or what he's doing to do about your treatment. This is so that the patient is fully aware of what's happening and what will happen following the
According to Terrence F. Ackerman, as of the 1980s the American Medical Association had to include the respect for a person’s autonomy as a principle of medical ethics (Ackerman 14, 1982). This includes having the physician provide all the medical information to the patient even if the information could cause negative implication onto the patient. The physician is also expected to withhold all information of the patient from 3rd parties (Ackerman 14, 1982). Although it is seen as standard in today’s world, in
Is this practical in the particular situation? Can we be sure that of a bad outcome for this patient? As a nurse, we are able to identify
On October 27th of 1969, after returning home from a summer in Brazil, University of California at Berkley student, Tatiana Tarasoff was repeatedly stabbed and killed by a fellow classmate, Prosenjit Poddar. As tragic as the crime itself was, more tragic was the fact that it could have been prevented. Poddar had developed an unhealthy obsession with Miss Tarasoff during the year leading up to her death. Her continuous rejection of his advances sent him spiraling into a deep depression. He was encouraged by friends to seek treatment at the University’s student health center. During his course of therapy Poddar revealed to his counselor his intentions to kill Tatiana. Though the therapist did take steps to prevent the tragedy from occurring such as, asking for the weapon, calling campus security and requesting an emergency psychiatric evaluation, he failed to warn Tatiana herself, the intended victim. After her parents sued the University for negligence, the California Supreme Court ruled that “when a therapist determines, or should have determined, that a patient presents a serious danger of violence to another, the therapist then has a ‘duty to protect’ that third party” (Dimone & Fulero, 145-147). However, the Tarasoff doctrine is vague as written, given very little direction to practitioners in how to carry out their legal obligation while still remaining ethically responsibly to their client. A leading ethical challenge in the mental health profession today involves maintaining client confidentiality and protecting the public from harm (Corey Et Al, p. 230).
...health of a patient and a follow up check at the GP’s may be required.
Treating all patients with dignity, respect, and understanding to their cultural values and autonomy. Each patient comes with their own religious belief. With patient-centered care as health care providers, we have to have ways to work around a patient with different beliefs. Catering to their culture differences and needs is a must in order to fulfill their needs.
Not all cases is patient autonomy the most important thing to respect and honor. There will always be situations where Medical paternalism is justified. Justifiable paternalism in a medical perspective is prolonging patients’ lives allowing them to exercise their autonomy. Failing to respect a patient’s treatment requests or denials is a violation of the autonomy at that point in time during their illness. While the previous statement is true, the medical professional is violating a patient’s future autonomy. For this reason, medical professionals have the right to act paternalistically, therefore medical paternalism is justified by means of future autonomy and obligations to promote patient
Protecting a patients dignity means to respect their privacy, allow them to have control over their own decisions, and to not undermine them at any point. Patients dignity can be protected by nurses by ensuring they only carry out personal care when it is needed, and if possible, have the nurse completing the task be the same gender of the patient. This may make them feel more comfortable and less embarrassed.
In practice, it is about being able to interact with patients with honesty and openness (Connor and Pokora, 2012). This is ensuring that nurses do not hide behind a professional mask or uniform and ‘the ability to show oneself without putting on a façade’ (Egan, 2004). This value can be beneficial for future practice and personal and professional development as it can help recognise to not overemphasise the helping role meaning that this allows nurses to not come across as patronising and not infantilise the patients (Egan,
Rights, as we know them, are legal, ethical or social privileges that are owed to a people according to some official system, social convention or ethical theory. From the days of the Enlightenment era until modern times there has been a belief that these tenets are basic universal entitlements. Many reformers and scholars have discussed the particular details of what qualifies as a human’s right and how these rights should be protected extensively. Most of the views shared by these individuals are similar in theory but each view underscores a slightly different point so that their definitions and applied concepts vary. Regardless, these basic unalienable rights are seen as dominating conditions under which people live liberally and equally.
Under the Universal official, public statement of Human Rights (1948), Almost completely, religious freedom, freedom of sense of
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to discuss the rights and responsibilities of the patient as well as the healthcare professional and why it is important to honor these rights. These rights and responsibilities should be followed in order to help ensure the safe, effective, efficient and quality healthcare to each individual. As a patient you have the right to be involved in your healthcare treatment and as a healthcare professional it is your duty to respect the rights of your customers. It is important for every individual to know and understand their rights as a patient when it comes to their health and what could be done, or what should or shouldn’t be done.
There are a number of basic rights that people from around the world have agreed on, such as the
Assessment 1 Part B: I am going to write a commentary on assessment 1 part A written by Arya Rizal. She had written about some of her experiences regarding confidentiality. There she had discussed about the confidentiality of the patient with HIV/AIDS. It was a delicate case which was to be handled in an equipped way. I have chosen the topic “Confidentiality” for my assessment 1 part B to elaborate and discuss about the confidentiality of the patients whom we take care and their physical and psychological health are our responsible.
However, this is incorrect. Even though the doctor is only treating you, he still has other patients to tend to, along with an extensive list of patients to be treated in other examination rooms. This may produce an impersonal visit rather than the attentive, personal visit you expected. One aspect of the standard experience is the confidentiality it offers. Confidentiality may appear as a benefit, perhaps it would be more beneficial to a patient to hear and communicate with others dealing with the same exact illness or disorder as them.