Ali Beikmoradi, Somayyeh Rabiee, Mahnaz Khatiban, , Mohammad Ali Cheraghi,
Volume 5, Issue 2 (4-2012)
Abstract
In spite of increasing advances in technology, medical equipments, costs, geriatric population, consideration to ethical and legal issues has increased in nursing profession. This study aimed to explore ethical codes and consideration of ethical issues and severity of ethical distress experienced by nurses at intensive care units.
A cross-sectional survey using questionnaire was conducted by a census of nurses in intensive care units in educational and treatment centers of Hamadan.
Nurses value most the ethical codes related to responsibility (95.1%), accountability (95.1%), patient support (77.3%), secret keeping (83.4%), and honesty (78.5%). They studied patient rights statement 2.47 times with standard deviation of 2.86. Only 50.3 percent of nurses had education about professional ethics. Nurses had mean of mark in severity of ethical distress 99.34 ±46.61.
Severity of ethical distress was moderate in nurses. There was not significant relationship between demographic data and severity of ethical distress. There are more needs to assess for effects and effective factors on ethical distress in intensive care units nurses.
Rasool Esmalipour, Pooneh Salari,
Volume 9, Issue 4 (10-2016)
Abstract
Confidentiality is considered as a principle commitment of all health care professionals. Respecting confidentiality creates and maintains the trust between patients and health professionals.
Patients should be assured that their information will be kept confidential unless there is a persuasive reason. Confidentiality originates from principle of patient’s autonomy, and there is no need to be requested frankly by patient.
All of the patient’s information is naturally secret unless the patient gives consent to disclosure. In this article we aimed at reviewing challenges of confidentiality in pharmacy practice in addition to presenting the national and international guidelines in this regard. The pharmacists as the last link of the treatment team are receiving a wide range of information about their patients. Therefore respecting confidentiality in pharmacy practice should be considered as a very important requirement and it seems that privacy and confidentiality is at the primary rack of ethical and legal issues in pharmacy. Obviously fundamental challenges are existent in the pharmacy which remained unsolved. In this regards all those challenges should be determined, analyzed and practiced. In the paper we introduced some challenges including challenges related to the physical environment, pharmaceutical consultation, patients confidentiality in presence of patients family, etc and presented national and international guidelines which assists in dealing with the challenges.
