Health care organization Analysis and Evaluation (Dignity)

Every health care organization requires a specific functional module that serves as the driving force behind its performance. Dignity is a crucial core concept that can be implemented in palliative care to improve patients’ chances of survival. The concept of dignity transcends race, culture, gender, creed, sex, and nationality, among other things. Professionalism compels nurses to consider their patients’ conditions in the most humane way possible in order to improve the sick people’s chances of survival. As a result, including dignity into the institution’s actions works to improve service quality. Palliative health concerns deal with patients who have chronic diseases like cancer which require very strict attention. Palliative health care requires the nurses and other caregivers to give close attention to the patients hence provide them with hope and chances of enjoying life again.

Addressing the challenges requires strict attention and adequate care that will enable the caregivers to give hope to the ailing patients. The incorporation of dignity in the system works to streamline the task of the caregivers and provide an ethical working condition which enhances close interaction between the patient and the caregivers in general. Thus upholding dignity in palliative care is a resounding step as it elevates the quality of service delivery towards the affected individuals.

Health and Dignity

Dignity is one of the core values that are advocated for in the palliative care Industry standard care guidelines. Dignity in palliative care entails doing what is good and what is also beneficial to clients and patients.

Dignity is described as the state of being honoured, esteemed and the state of being worthy. In this perspective, dignity provides a skeletal framework of the criteria of handling patients and other key therapeutic considerations that the caregivers can provide to the patients. Such a core value works to systematically branch complicated issues in caregiving and hence provide the patients with informed decisions which can be applied to achieve palliation of symptoms and work on critical issues in the closure of life.

The core value of the institution is to provide quality health care with utmost love to the available patients.

Analysis and Evaluation (Dignity)

Proper healthcare and treatment work to improve the overall welfare of an individual. For the entire process to be fruitful, dignity is a vital element which every individual should uphold strongly.

Knowledge is an important accessory of enhancing dignity in any health institution. In this perspective, the institution affirms that the dignity of an individual narrows down to the ability of the person to acknowledge personhood. Additionally, the incorporation of dignity also works to promote sensitivity in both the caregivers and the patients in the closing phase of the life of the patient. Adequate treatment seeks to be provided with tender love and care thus ensuring successful medical attention (Mkwinda, 2014 pg.76). By the provision of an all-round care and support and upholding dignity, the patients can adequately improve their health status in the long run and increase their chances of living before life closure.

Exercising dignity also seeks to give hope to the entire health fraternity irrespective of the challenges which they face in their daily activities in the health institution. A conducive and dignified working condition seeks to improve the productivity of the caregivers.

Findings

themes

Dobrina 2014

Dhai 2015

Dressler 2017

Mkwinda 2014

Schiessl 2013

Mkwinda

2014

Study type

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

location

New York

New York

New York

Malawi

Germany

Malawi

hypothesis

Roles of dignity

Incorporation of dignity

Values applicable in palliative care

Palliative care initiatives

Dignity and health care

Analysis of dignity in palliative care

methodology

observation

observation

observation

interviewing

observation

interviewing

Outcome

positive

positive

positive

positive

positive

positive

limitation

Biasness

Biasness

Biasness

Insufficient resources

Selective

observation

Small study area

Discussion

Studies ascertain that dignity focuses on working with the set work standard or ethics without supervision but maintaining the channels of openness. In this case, Dressler describes that dignity helps create a strong relationship between the patients and the medical practitioners. Having precise information of the problems and the diseases affecting the patients is an important factor in improvising patient inventory on the entire subject matter.

Mkwinda in his second edition further addresses the implications of palliative care. (Mkwinda, 2014, 433) He points out that the incorporation of dignity into the health issues serves to improve the quality of health services offered. All these sentiments seek to cement the position of dignity in the society. Dressler, Daniel, McKean, John, and Danielle give an upper hand in palliative medicine practices. In this case, dignity as a key element is an important stepping stone in realizing the goals of such a process.

By the application of dignity, there is a close link between the upper management, the staff, and the patients hence enhance smooth running of the activities in the health institution. A loving and hospitable health institution which upholds dignity serves to address all the issues of the patients. Such instances can be applied to cancer patients who are at their critical phase just as Dhai (2015, p 78) points. Some of the major chronic diseases include cancer and HIV/ AIDS, and it is the responsibility of the caregivers to cherish and encourage them to live another day. Dobrina adequately points out that the element of dignity tends to improve the welfare of the caregivers and the patients (Dobrina, Tenze, 2014 Pg. 79). In this perspective, she aims to prove that dignity also works to provide hope to the critically ailing individuals.

Believing in the provision of quality care is an important element of Palliative health analysis. In this case, Schiessl accordingly asserts that dignity works to maintain the confidentiality of the patients’ records from the non-concerned parties (Schiessl, 2012 pg.25). The quality of health services in any institution majorly depend on the level of confidentiality of patient records by the institution. Dobrina (2014, pg. 56) points out it is essential that the caregivers consider the well-being of the patient is of great essence. In this case, incorporating dignity in all their undertakings seeks to ease the quality of service delivery thus helping the patients get well fast.

Conclusion

In conclusion, core values are meant to ensure that nurses and doctors attend to patients who have severe ailments. Quality service delivery enhances the well-being of the patients and provides hope for the future. Chronic diseases tend to incapacitate individual but through palliative care patients can get adequate care that can guarantee increased life expectancy.

References

Dobrina, R, M Tenze, and aPalese. “An Overview of Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing Models and Theories.” International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 20.2 (2014): 75-81. Print.

Dhai, Ames. “Physician-assisted Dying and Palliative Care: Understanding the Two: Editorial.” South African Journal of Bioethics and Law. 8.2 (2015): 2-3. Print.

Dressler, Daniel D, Sylvia C. McKean, John J. Ross, and Danielle B. Scheurer. Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine. New York, N.Y: McGraw-Hill Education LLC, 2017. Print.

Mkwinda, Esmie, Malmsey Sengane, and EucebiousLekalakala-Mokgele. “Palliative Care Nurses Need Concerning Support of Primary Caregivers to People Living with Hiv/aids in Malawi: Palliative and Chronic Care.” African Journal for Physical Health Education, Recreation and Dance. 20 (2014): 433-443. Print.

Mkwinda, Esmie, Malmsey Sengane, and EucebiousLekalakala-Mokgele. “Palliative Care Nurses Need Concerning Support of Primary Caregivers to People Living with Hiv/aids in Malawi: Palliative and Chronic Care.” African Journal for Physical Health Education, Recreation and Dance. 20 (2014): 433-443. Print.

Schiessl, C, M Walshe, S Wildfeuer, P Larkin, R Voltz, and J Juenger. “Undergraduate Curricula in Palliative Medicine: a Systematic Analysis Based on the Palliative Education Assessment Tool.” Journal of Palliative Medicine. 16.1 (2013): 20-30. Print.