Nurse Interns' Perception Regarding Patients' Rights and Advocacy | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 98, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 1370-1381 PDF (452.66 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.243488 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Samar Hussein Abdel-Fattah1; Mona Mostafa Shazly2; Nema Fathi Saad3 | ||
| 1Nursing Administration Department | ||
| 2Professor of Nursing Administration | ||
| 3Assist professor of Nursing Administration-Faculty of Nursing -Ain Shams University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Although respecting patient rights is crucial in the provision of quality care, patient rights and advocacy are often missed in nursing practice. Study aim: to assess the nurse interns' perception regarding patients' rights and advocacy.Research design: Adescriptive design was used. Subjects: study was conducted in the four Ain Shams University Hospitals on 111 nurse interns. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire with 2 tools for patient bill of rights and patient advocacy was used in data collection. The fieldwork lasted from February to April 2021. Results: Nurse interns’ age ranged between 21 and 27 years, median 23.0 years, with almost equal gender distribution. Overall, 66.7% of the nurse interns had high perception of patient rights, and 80.2% had high perception of patient advocacy rights. A significant positive correlation was found between the scores of perceptions of patient rights and of advocacy (r=0.565). Female gender and awareness of the patient right bill were positive predictors of the patient right perception score, while for the advocacy score, female gender, family size, and previous training were positive predictors and age and night shift work were negative predictors. Conclusion : Nurse interns' perception of patient rights is suboptimal, while their perception of advocacy is higher, and both are positively correlated. Recommendations :Nursing internship program shouid give more emphasis to the area of patient rights and advocacy. The hospital administration should foster staff awareness of patient rights. Further research is proposed to explore the barriers that prevent nurses from advocating patients. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Nurse interns; Perception; Patient rights; Advocacy | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 152 PDF Download: 227 |
||
