ABSTRACT

Background: Patients rights is one of the ethical component and legal issue. The health professionals are closely associated and expected to respect the patients and families in the hospital irrespective of caste, colour, Creed and religion. The present study aims to assess the knowledge on Patientsrights among staff nurses at SRM General Hospital Kattankulathur. Mothods: It is a single blinded cross- sectional descriptive study. A non probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the samples. A standard tool with 12 areas of patients rights was used. After explaining and getting the consent of the participant’s data was collected from 60 staff nurses. The collected data we're analyzed with SPSS version 20. Results: Out of 60 staff nurses, regarding the knowledge on patients rights majority of the staff nurses (63.3%) had high level of knowledge, (28.3%) of them with moderate level of knowledge and (8.33%) with poor level of knowledge regarding patients rights in hospital. Conclusion: Patients right has to be valued and health professionals are responsible to maintain respect and high quality nursing care even in emergency situation. Only 63% of the care takers had adequate knowledge on patients rights in the hospital. The public should be trained with good communication so that they will be able to cooperate in their treatment. Key words: Patients rights, Health Professionals, Knowledge, Conduct
Publication date: 01/05/2023

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2023/12.5.7066