Dignity in Professional Nursing: Guaranteeing Better Patient Care

Nursingprofessional dignity isa complextopic.This articledescribesintrinsic and professionalnurs- ing dignity and gives some historical background on nursing in Italy as the setting for a qualitative study of dig- nity conducted in the same country. The study results show the importance of recognition of nursing professionaldignityasitrelatestoprofessionalsatisfactionandpatientcare.(JRadiolNurs2013;32:120-123.)