title: Demonstrating respect for patient dignity.
abstract: The Essence of Care highlights patient privacy and dignity as a key benchmark area for the evaluation of health care (Department of Health 2003). Communication is increasingly viewed as the means by which the quality of health care should be judged. This article explores how giving information and the words nurses use could express respect for patient dignity.
authors.affiliation: RCN Institute, London. bob.price@rcn.org.uk
authors.forename: Bob
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Price
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D004644:Emotions; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D018907:Privacy; D011787:Quality of Health Care