@article{oai:saku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000090,
 author = {八尋, 道子},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {佐久大学看護研究雑誌, Saku University Journal of Nursing},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {In its preamble, the Japanese Nursing Association Code of Ethics for Nurses expresses that people hope to stay healthy and happy while maintaining human dignity（JNA, 2003）. This report aims to stimulate debate and reflection regarding the meaning and implications of dignity of patients in everyday nursing practice within the social framework in Japan using the latest vital statistics and population estimates. In addition, it will examine a possible approach to maintain dignity as taught in fundamental part of nursing education. For this, the report explicates dignifi ed care as erformed by six second-year nursing students during two weeks of their first practicum in a local hospital in Japan. In the surgical ward, patients in their eighties were cared for by the students and assisted with their ambulation. The students were good walking companions. Also those students were ideally placed to provide timely continence assessment and individualized nursing interventions. During their fi rst placement, the students continuously investigated how to attend to other aspects of dignity in the care of their patients that contributed to improving their well-being.},
 pages = {39--42},
 title = {Teaching nursing students about dignified care through enhancing the capability of elderly patients},
 volume = {5},
 year = {2013}
}