Nurses' Adherence to Professional Nursing Code of Ethics and Quality of Nursing Care Satisfaction

Completed

• Conditions: Professional Role; Nurse's Role; Ethics, Narrative; Satisfaction, Patient

• Registration Number: NCT06370377
• Lead Sponsor: Matrouh University

Brief Summary

Nursing code of ethics is an essential part of nursing professional practice. Nurses' adherence to a code of ethics is an important pillar of improving their performance, providing good nursing care and achieving patient satisfaction.

Detailed Description

Nursing code of ethics is an essential part of nursing professional practice. Nurses' adherence to a code of ethics is an important pillar of improving their performance, providing good nursing care and achieving patient satisfaction.This study aimed to examine relationship between nurses' adherence to an Egyptian professional nursing code of ethical practice and patient satisfaction with quality of nursing care in critical and medical-surgical care units.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-12-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-02-28
• Study Completion: 2023-02-28
• Status Verified: 2024-04
• Study First Submitted: 2024-04-14
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-04-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-04-14
• Study First Posted: 2024-04-17
• Last Update Posted: 2024-04-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 400

Inclusion Criteria

• Nurses

  • willing to participate in the study
  • work in surgical intensive and critical care units
  • Sign a consent

• Patients

  • Alert, conscious and educated patients
  • More than 18 years old

Exclusion Criteria

• Nurses

  • Work in outpatient units and other units
  • Did not sign a consent

• Patients

  • Unaware or could not communicate
  • less than 18 years old

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Questionnaire to measure source of nurses' knowledge about Egyptian code of ethics	one month	source of nurses' knowledge about Egyptian code of ethics as assessed using a binary scale of yes=1 and no =0.
Observational checklist to measure	one month	nurses' adherence to an Egyptian professional nursing code of ethical practice as assessed using three ranking scales (never practice (0 points) or sometimes practice (0.5 points) and always practice (1 point).
Questionnaire to measure patient satisfaction with the quality of nursing care	one month	Patient satisfaction with quality of nursing care as assessed using five Likert scales ranging from 1 = poor and 5 = excellent.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University; 🇪🇬 Mersa Matruh, Egypt