Ethical Approach by Healthcare Workers to Patients Having Special Needs While Focusing on the Mentally Ill Individuals

Every day, the healthcare workers encounter the patients having special needs and requiring increased health and nursing care. These patients include those suffering mental illnesses, the number of which continues to grow at present. Mental illnesses, especially psychosis, affects the perception of reality, reduces the patients ́ life quality and, in some cases, they even lead to suicides. Except for the state-of-the-art therapeutic and psychotherapeutic procedures, an adequate ethical approach to mentally ill people also forms essential part of treatment, based on non-mandatory, empathetic and supportive communication. Non-devaluing of a patient in terms of his/her ridiculing and humiliating the human dignity forms part of the given approach.