Patient rights and their repercussions on the nurse-patient relationship: a scoping review
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https://doi.org/10.5216/ree.v27.78263Keywords:
Patient Rights, Patient Advocacy, Nurse-Patient Relations, Ethics, Nursing, ReviewAbstract
Objective: to map formally produced content on patient rights that have an impact on the nurse-patient relationship. Methods: a scoping review that followed recommendations from the JBI and PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews. It involved searching for articles in four databases and an electronic library, texts obtained from the references of selected articles, documents from national and international organizations related to the protection of patient rights and nursing entities and autarchies. Results: thirty-four articles, published between 2002 and 2022, and 11 documents, published between 1974 and 2022, were selected. The topics were grouped into four classes: patient rights - meaning of the concept; tools that materialize patient rights (informed consent and advance directives); characteristics of nurses and the nurse-patient relationship that indicate that these professionals respect patient rights; theoretical framework, currents and ethical principles that support nurses’ work. Conclusion: respect for patient rights materializes in actions to defend patients by nurses and in the use of informed consent and advance directives, based on human dignity, theoretical and legal frameworks of human rights and the ethical currents and principles that permeate the profession.
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