Page 116 - Human Rights

Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

• As health and reproductive technologies and techniques advance, new ethical questions will be

raised. It is important that nursing ethics be kept constantly under review to respond to

developments. Particular attention should be given to ethical and human rights aspects of sexual
and reproductive health.

• Professional and human rights training should be made more available throughout a nurse’s or

midwife’s career.

• Ensure that the advocacy role of nurses and midwives and the monitoring of human rights

violations are addressed in teaching courses.

• Educators should develop links with health organizations and stimulate and contribute to
training programmers and research on subjects such as the effects of economic globalization on

the right to health.

• Nurse educators can contribute to writing academic articles on nursing and human rights and
encourage engagement with the periodic monitoring of human rights by the UN bodies.

3.7 To individual nurses and midwives

Nurses are frequently the first contact point for the patient in the health care system.

This means that they can witness the effects of human rights violations on individuals and the

effects these have on families and communities.

Individual nurses can play an important role in affirming the rights of the individual patient; can
breathe life into the ethics of the nursing profession; and can contribute to the strengthening of

the nursing role in civil society.

In particular, nurses can articulate the links between health and human rights and advocate for

more effective health care services.

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