title: The place of dignity in everyday ethics.
abstract: Although ethics is often thought of in terms of "life-and-death" matters, many everyday situations involve ethics. Human dignity, a more recent way of expressing the belief that humans are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26), captures the controversial notion that all humans are uniquely valuable and ought to be esteemed highly. Nurses have great opportunity to promote or demote dignity. A Christian holistic approach to ethics, exemplified by the narrative of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), acknowledges the difficulty of always being ethical and integrates feeling, thinking, acting, and spirituality.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Dublin City University, Ireland.
authors.forename: Dónal P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: O'Mathúna
mesh_terms: D002835:Christianity; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D033262:Narration; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D028723:Personhood