NET2019 - Nursing students' perspectives on preserving dignity in care

This paper presents findings from a study exploring Nursing students’ perspectives on ‘people’ and ‘place’ influences on the preservation of dignity in care. A total of 31 participants were recruited from a three-year undergraduate Pre-registration Nursing programme. Nominal Group Technique (NGT) was used and each participant attended one of five nominal groups. Following the NGT process of scoring and ranking, each group concluded with the identification of the group’s ‘Top 5’ most important influences on dignity in care. Subsequent qualitative and quantitative content analysis identified 14 categories of influences, 12 of which concern ‘people’ rather than ‘place’.