Self and Community Exploring the Anatomy of the Modern Society

Question: Discuss about theSelf and Communityfor Exploring the Anatomy of the Modern Society. Answer: Individual Dignity Affected by the Hospital Services The present research study is an Op-Ed that is an Opinion Editorial report. This study mainly focuses on analysing the principle of the human dignity and common good principle of the nursing profession. In this particular study, the principles related to the dignity of human and the common good has been mentioned and discussed for providing a better knowledge on the issue study that follows. Along with these principles of human dignity and the common good, the study also mentions about the practice of the deontological perspective instead of the utilitarian perspective for the purpose of the nursing practise. The Principle of Human Dignity: The dignity of the human being has been insisted by the Catholic Church as the dignity of any human being is rooted and is confined within their own creation of the image or fondness or believes or likeness of god. As mentioned by Schachter (2013), the foundation of the all the social teachings of the Catholic Church is the belief of the human being in the inherent dignity. The principle of the human dignity has its grounds within the belief and the idea that each and every person is made within the image of god. The Principle of Common Good: The ways how a society of human is organized as per the economically, legally and politically is proportioned directly to affects the human dignity within the community. There is an dimension for the commitment of any individual for loving their neighbour however, it requires a broader commitment of society. It implies that every individual ha their own responsibility towards the whole society for the common good (Donnelly 2013). Human Dignity Effected: In the present research study, the chosen profession is the profession of Doctor and the services of the hospital. This study shows the ways how the doctors and the hospital services treat the patients dignity and privacy. Very high standard of code of professional conduct is the basic requirement of a good doctor- patient relationship. This requires of the doctor and the patient both to be courteous, honest to each other and compassionate. The doctor requires treating each of the patients as individual and disclosing one patients privacy and confidential matters to others. As mentioned by Banerjee and Sanyal (2012), the doctor needs to follow the protecting the patients privacy and confidentiality and disclose it only when it is demanded by the considerations of the public interests. The patients under any doctor or any hospital have the right to expect that their information regarding the genetics and other non disclosing informations to be held with the party with utmost security and confidentiality. The issues arise in these cases when the privacy regarding the patients is not maintained by the doctors or the hospital services. In the case of the hospital services an issues have been raised according to Broom et al. (2014) that lack of privacy in the hospitals have emerged as one of the central factors that have been leading towards the loss of dignity of the patients at hospitals. Examples: As an example for the hospital services not maintaining the proper security and privacy services and the dignity of the patient could be taken of NHS Hospital of England. This hospital of England does not provide its patients and the patients party with the caring environment that would support the patient privacy and the confidentiality. The patients of the hospital have been found to dislike the hospital staffs and the wards that do not allow privacy. The small spaces between the beds and the close proximity have leads to the loss of dignity of the patients (Lloyd et al. 2014). The second example could be taken of the Florence Nightingale Hospital of UK. The wards of this hospital are the traditional kinds of wards that consist of one long bed with beds on the both of the sides of the wards. Such kind of wards in the modern are a substance of low dignity for the patients that would not provide them with enough privacy an confidential space and lead to loss of dignity of the patients (Donnelly 2013). Conclusion: The hospitals as such require taking steps for the maintaining of the hospital services well for the protection of the customers privacy and dignity. The hospitals must also promote the maintaining of the privacy and the confidential statements and informations of the patients. 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