Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2014 Dec;3(4):e19136.
doi: 10.17795/nmsjournal19136. Epub 2014 Dec 29.

The Nursing Students' Views About the Patient's Rights at the West Black Sea Universities in Turkey

Rahime Aydin Er  1 , Nermin Ersoy  2 , Sevim Celik  3
Affiliations

The Nursing Students' Views About the Patient's Rights at the West Black Sea Universities in Turkey

Rahime Aydin Er et al. Nurs Midwifery Stud. 2014 Dec.

Abstract

Background: The members of healthcare team have an important role in implementation and protection of patient's rights. Contemporary nursing entails an ethical responsibility to advocate and protect the patients' rights.

Objectives: This study was designed to evaluate how ready nursing students, at the end of their education, were to play the role of patient's rights advocates and to discuss ethics education in nursing.

Materials and methods: This descriptive study was performed on nursing students at Black Sea Universities in the academic year 2010-2011. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire about students' attitudes regarding patients' rights including patient's rights regulations. The association between gender and students' attitudes was analyzed using Chi-square test.

Results: The mean age of the 238 participants was 22.11 ± 1.21 years and 82.8% of them were female. The majority of the nursing students held desirable attitudes toward patient information, truth telling, and protection of patients' privacy and medical records. However, the students' views about the rights of patients to refuse treatment, children's active participation in treatment, prioritization of the quality of life in treatment, and respect for the rights of dying patients were less satisfactory.

Conclusions: The results of this study was concerning with regard to nursing students' readiness for duties such as patient's rights advocacy. Therefore, it proposes ethics education that covers both patient's rights and the obligations of nurses to defend these rights.

Keywords: Nurse’s Role; Nursing Education; Nursing Ethics; Patient Advocacy; Patient’s Rights.

PubMed Disclaimer

Similar articles

See all similar articles

Cited by

References

    1. Onal G. Rights of patients in prison. In: Ulman YI, Gul TB, Kadıoglu FG, Yıldırım G, Edisan Z, editors. Expanding Medical Ethics to Bioethics. Ankara: Turkish Bioethics Association Publications; 2009. pp. 248–55.
    1. Onal G. Anatomy of patient rights. J Acibadem Univ Health Sci. 2012;3(1):7–14.
    1. ER RA. Attitudes to Patient Rights of Students at the Beginning and End of Nursing Education: Kocaeli Sample. Turk Klinikleri J Med Ethics. 2012;20(3):139–45.
    1. Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health, Hasta Hakları Uygulama Yönergesi (The Directive for Practice of Patient Rights). T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı; 2005. Available from: http://sbu.saglik.gov.tr/hastahaklari/yeniyonerge.htm.
    1. Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health, Hasta Hakları Yönetmeliğinde Değişiklik Yapılmasına Dair Yönetmelik (Regulation Amending the Regulation of Patients' Rights). Official Gazette of Republic of Turkey; 2014. Available from: http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2014/05/20140508-3.htm.

LinkOut - more resources