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Thursday, 20 July 2006
This presentation is part of : Ethical Issues
Patients' Privacy in Hospital: The Nurses' Perception
Yen-Gan Chiou, RN, BS, Nursing Department, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Hsiang, Taiwan, Pei-rong Chang, RN, MS, Department of Nursing, Foo-Yin University, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan, and Ming-Chu Chiang, MSN, Liver Transplantation, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan.
Learning Objective #1: to understand the nurses' perception of patients' privacy in hospital
Learning Objective #2: to explore the needs of patients' privacy of toward further nursing ethic education
Patients’ privacy in hospital is an important issue for health providers.  However, there are few studies conducted toward the nurses’ perception of patients’ privacy in Taiwan.  The purpose of the study is to explore the nurses’ perception of patients’ privacy in knowledge and attitude.  There are total 57 clinical nurses working in medical center participating in this study.  The instrument used included demographic data and eight sub-scale questionnaire.  The participants are on average age of 30 years old and on average clinical experience of 4.2 years.  Most of them did not take any courses related patients’ privacy.  Above 60% participants have read the laws related patient’s right.  But, near two-third nurses have not attended any meeting concerning the law of patient’s right and received an explanation about the law of patient’s rights.  The findings showed the highest scoring are: (1) nurses’ emotions that arise while maintaining the patients’ privacy; (2) nurses’ intention to promote maintenance of patients’ privacy during performance of nursing activities; and (3) the degree of the most people close to nurses’ thinking to promote maintenance of patients’ privacy.  Furthermore, there is no statistic significant correlation between clinical experience and any sub-scale in promoting maintenance of patients’ privacy.  However, it was statistic significance on correlation in nurses’ intention and nurses’ strategies to promote maintenance of patients’ privacy during performance of nursing activities by age.  Based on the results, nursing education should be enhanced in patients’ privacy in fundamental education and continuing education.  Moreover, a further approach will be focused on patients’ perception as well as how the needs met between patients and nurses.

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