ABSTRACT
Central to a ‘good’ working relationship between the nurse and the patient is an understanding that patients are expected to comply with what the nurse wants them to do and that the patient does not resist or obstruct the nurse. [. . .]
The modesty rule means that the patient is expected to be neither too modest or embarrassed, nor too free to expose himself or herself, and that the nurse will protect the patient’s privacy. The following two accounts illustrate, in particular, what this rule means and how it interrelates with the other three rules. In effect the patient is expected to let the nurse have control and to comply with the nurses’ requests, to be appropriately modest, and for their part, nurses acknowledge a need for protection of patients – it is a reciprocal arrangement.
