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Nurses versus patient’s awarness about patient’s rights and nureses compliance to thes rights
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Abstract
In spite of the achievements concerning patient rights and ethical problems in healthcare in Egypt, several problems still persist. Aim: Assess Nurses versus Patient’s Awareness about Patient’s Rights and Nurses Compliance to These Right Research design: Comparative descriptive design. Setting: the study was conducted in two types of hospitals in Egypt, three governmental hospitals (university hospital, health insurance hospital and ministry of health hospital) and private hospital. Study sample: two groups of the subjects were included in the present study: a total of 400 nurses who provide direct care to patients (100 in each hospital), and a total 400 patients who present at the time of study (100 in each hospital).Tool: there were three tools used for data collection: I. Nurses{u2019} awareness toward patient rights questionnaires: II. Patient{u2019}s awareness toward patient rights questionnaires and III. Nurses{u2019}compliance to the patient{u2019}s rights from patients{u2019} point of view questionnaire these structured questionnaires were developed by (Said, 2010). Results: Results revealed (60.75%) of nurses had high level of awareness to patients’ rights and (34.23%) of patients had good awareness toward their rights, in addition there was statistically significant difference in the compliances of nurses about patients’ rights between private hospital and governmental hospitals (p=0.001). Conclusion: the study findings showed that there was a significant statically difference in nurses{u2019} compliance regarding to patients{u2019}bill of rights in four hospitals especially in governmental hospitals. Recommendations: the study recommended that the concept of patients’ rights should be given as a regular and specialized educational program and retraining and put it as a course in curriculum