Hadi Jafari Manesh, Mehdi Ranjbaran, Katayon Vakilian, Reza Tajik, Amir Almasi-Hashiani,
Volume 6, Issue 6 (2-2014)
Abstract
Assessing nursing students’ level of respect for ethical codes of nursing is essential as these students are the future health care providers. There is a need to check observance of ethics codes among students, because that will determine ethics education and training needs. This study aimed to assess nursing students’ compliance with professional ethical codes and some of the relevant factors.This is a descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional study performed by census on 118 nursing students who were training in hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. The data gathering tool consisted of a questionnaire including demographic information, and another questionnaire which was developed by the researcher based on studies in Iran and throughout the world.The ethical codes that were respected most included "principles of conflict management" and then "respect for the medical staff". "Respect for patients' rights" and "patient education" received less consideration. Grade point average, gender, marital status, interest in nursing and likelihood to work in nursing had significant association with respect for ethics codes.The results of this study can be used in developing courses on nursing ethics and educating nurses on the subject, and could be of special interest to health planners and policy makers.
Sasan Moogahi, Masoumeh Tajik, Maria Cheraghi, Farkhondeh Jamshidi,
Volume 13, Issue 0 (3-2020)
Abstract
Privacy is a basic principle of humanity and one of the most important fundamental rights of every human, that adherence to it is required particularly in health care organizations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate privacy level of elderly patients in educational and medical centers of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. This cross-sectional study was performed on 230 elderly patients hospitalized in internal and surgical wards of educational and medical centers of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of medical sciences. Data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. The questionnaire was prepared in two dimensions of psychological with 11 questions and physical with 18 questions. Validity of the questionnaire was evaluated by experts and professors. Results showed that 62.2% (143 people) of the patients were female and the rest were male. In terms of adherence to privacy, 47.13% of women and 51.75% of men evaluated it as high and 13.79% of women and 20.28% of men evaluated it as poor. The level of privacy in terms of gender of the patient, nurse, and the physician in charge were statistically different (P-value<0.05). However, there was no significant difference between adherence to privacy and age and occupation of patient before retirement, marital status of nurse, and physician in charge (P-value> 0.05). Training of nurses, physicians, personnel, and health care providers to enhance privacy of elderly patients and reinforce supervisory performance of managers and authorities is necessary.
