All Outputs (3)

“Just because people are old, just because they're ill…” dignity matters in district nursing (2021)
Journal Article
Stevens, E., Price, L., & Walker, L. (2022). “Just because people are old, just because they're ill…” dignity matters in district nursing. The journal of adult protection, 24(1), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-07-2021-0024

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the concept and practice, of dignity as understood and experienced by older adults and district nursing staff. The paper adds a new, nuanced, understanding of safeguarding possibilities in the context of district n... Read More about “Just because people are old, just because they're ill…” dignity matters in district nursing.

Making the mundane remarkable: an ethnography of the ‘dignity encounter’ in community district nursing (2021)
Journal Article
Stevens, E., Price, E., & Walker, E. (in press). Making the mundane remarkable: an ethnography of the ‘dignity encounter’ in community district nursing. Ageing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x21000738

The concept of dignity is core to community district nursing practice, yet it is profoundly complex with multiple meanings and interpretations. Dignity does not exist absolutely, but, rather, becomes socially (de)constructed through and within social... Read More about Making the mundane remarkable: an ethnography of the ‘dignity encounter’ in community district nursing.

‘I’m a person, you’re a person. We’re not plastic, we’re human beings’ : An ethnographic study of dignity in community nursing (2019)
Thesis
Stevens, E. L. (2019). ‘I’m a person, you’re a person. We’re not plastic, we’re human beings’ : An ethnographic study of dignity in community nursing. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4912838

This study explores dignity and human rights through the experiences of older patients and staff in a community nursing context. Previous empirical considerations of dignity in healthcare focus primarily on hospital-based care, and only a paucity of... Read More about ‘I’m a person, you’re a person. We’re not plastic, we’re human beings’ : An ethnographic study of dignity in community nursing.