Prison healthcare, patient modesty, nursing care, quality of care, patient dignity, healthcare ethics, Public Health Code, medical confidentiality
This document discusses the challenges of providing quality care while respecting patient modesty in a prison setting, highlighting the importance of trust, dignity, and safety.
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[...] Indeed, it is essential that the nurse understands the fact that modesty, in a prison environment, is often exacerbated by a feeling of dispossession of the body. 3. Quality and safety of care: reconciling respect for patient choice and technical requirements of care According to the French National Authority for Health the quality of care represents 'the ability of a healthcare system to ensure that each patient receives the combination of diagnostic, therapeutic, and supportive interventions that guarantee the best health outcome, in accordance with the current state of science, at the best cost for the same result, with the least iatrogenic risk, and for the greatest satisfaction in terms of procedures, results, and human contacts within the healthcare system' (2016). [...]
[...] Thus, we understand that the quality and safety of care depend as much on the mastery of the gesture as on the recognition of the person, although they are incarcerated. By protecting their intimacy, the nurse respects the deontology of their profession and acts as a healthcare professional, guaranteeing adapted, qualitative, and safe care. Bibliography Berger, V., Eymard, C., & Lefebvre, H. (2013). Ethical issues of the nurse in the prevention of hospitalized patients' constipation: shame, modesty, and intimacy. Ethics & Health, 216-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etiqe.2013.10.001. Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales. https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/pudeur. [...]
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