Nurses’ Awareness about their Rights and Responsibilities | ||
| Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Article 10, Volume 7, Issue 18 - Serial Number 3, September 2019, Pages 87-94 PDF (940.7 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asnj.2019.58139 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ashgan Khaled Mohamed1; Fatma Rushdy Mohamed2; Nadia Mohamed Saleh3 | ||
| 1Demonstrator in Nursing Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, Egypt | ||
| 2Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt | ||
| 3Assistant professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: The need for nursing is a universal issue. Nurses’ awareness of their rights and responsibilities make them more satisfied and provide high quality care. Aim: Explore nurses’ awareness of their rights and responsibilities at Sohag City Hospitals. Research design: A descriptive research design was used in the present study. Setting: This study was conducted at Sohag University Hospital and Sohag General Hospital. Sample: It was (365) nurse from Sohag University Hospital & (175) from Sohag General Hospital Results: Reveals that, the highest percentage of nurses has high level of awareness as regard to their rights (81.6% & 86.9%) respectively, and responsibilities (83.8% & 90.9%) respectively, at both Sohag University and Sohag General Hospitals. Conclusion: There was a positive correlation between age and nurses’ awareness about their rights and responsibilities at both Sohag University and Sohag General Hospitals. Recommendations: Every hospital should make a meeting for newly employed nursing personnel to inform them of their Code of ethics, researches should be done to evaluate nursing practice of their rights and responsibilities | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Awareness; Nurses’ Rights; Nurses’ Responsibilities & Ethics | ||
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