Page 4 - Human Rights

Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

2.11.2 Social Determinants of Health ................................................................................................. 87

3.Chapter Three ............................................................................................................................................ 0
3.1 Nurses and professionalism. ............................................................................................................. 96

3.2 Nurses and professional ethics ......................................................................................................... 97
3.2.1 Duty of care ................................................................................................................................ 97
3.2.2 Consent ...................................................................................................................................... 98

3.2.3 Confidentiality ............................................................................................................................ 98
3.2.4 Patient dignity ............................................................................................................................ 99

3.3 Health policy development ............................................................................................................. 101
3.4 Responding to human rights abuses: the nursing role ................................................................... 103
3.4.1 Advocacy .................................................................................................................................. 103

3.4.2 Professional bodies .................................................................................................................. 105
3.4.3 Individuals ................................................................................................................................ 107

3.5 Nurses, midwives and human rights education .............................................................................. 108
3.5.1 International obligations regarding human rights education .................................................. 109

3.5.2 Education and public health implications ................................................................................ 110
3.5.3 Resources ................................................................................................................................. 111

3.6 To nurse educators ......................................................................................................................... 111
3.6.1 Human rights and nursing ethics ............................................................................................. 111
3.7 To individual nurses and midwives ................................................................................................. 112

4.Chapter Four .............................................................................................................................................. 0
4.1 Offenders with Mental Disorders ..................................................................................................... 108

4.2 Role of Nursing in Caring for Offenders with Mental Disorders ..................................................... 110
4.3 Populations at risk ........................................................................................................................... 113

4.3.1 Children .................................................................................................................................... 113
4.3.2 People with mental or physical disabilities .............................................................................. 115

4.4 Elderly Patients ................................................................................................................................ 116
4.4.1 Witnessing the Effects of Violence ............................................................................................ 116
4.4.2 Violence in Institutions .............................................................................................................. 117

3 Academic Year 2025/2026