Dignity and Human Rights in Community Nursing
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Journeys through health care: Dignity and human rights
IRAS ID
198878
Contact name
E Stevens
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Hull
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 3 months, 0 days
Research summary
The study is a student research project for the award of PhD.
The project aims to explore how dignity and human rights are upheld within the health service through observing practice and talking to staff and patients about their experiences.
Currently there is existing research that explores dignity within hospitals or in-patient services and members of the public are increasingly familiar with violations of dignity through examples such as Winterbourne View and Mid-Staffordshire hospitals. However, there is a lot of positive practice that promotes patients' dignity and cases of NHS staff supporting and promoting human rights are not widely reported. As current research often focuses on patients experiences of dignity and respect in hospitals, this study aims to fill a gap in research by exploring how dignity and human rights relate to staff and patients receiving health care within their own homes.
The research will be undertaken for a period of 12 weeks within one community nursing team in England. The research involves the chief investigator observing community nursing practice with adults aged over 18 in their homes. Ongoing consent from staff and patients will be sought and after the period of observation they shall be invited to be interviewed by the chief investigator about their experiences of either delivering human rights-based and dignified care (staff) or their experiences of receiving this care (patients).
REC name
East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/EM/0406
Date of REC Opinion
21 Sep 2016
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion