perception and performance of emergency room nurse's protecting behavior for the patient privacy

While ER nurses’ behavior, recognition, and practice in protecting patient privacy is important, leakage of private information may substantially threaten the very notion of the patient’s freedom. In other words, along with medical care, patient management including protecting individual privacy and assuring social safety at ER is important. Therefore, the purpose of this study a descriptive research is to assess the degree of ER nurses’ recognition and practice in protecting patient privacy. The subject of the study is 70 ER nurses at a university level hospital based in Suwon and data was collected from December 10th,2007 to January30th,2008 through surveys and observing methods. The data collected was then analyzed by using the SPSS WIN 13.0 statistics program. 1. The participants’ average level of recognition in protecting patient privacy recorded 4.13±0.33 out of 5. As for the communication aspect, the level was 4.33±0.45, the highest figure of all. Average levels for patient information management, related operation, and direct nursing operation were 4.12±0.38, 4.02±0.47, and 3.98±0.43 respectively. 2. The participants’ average level of practice in protecting patient privacy recorded 3.22±0.46 out of 5. As for the patient information management aspect, the level was 3.61±0.40, the highest of all. Average levels for communication, related operation, and direct nursing operation were 3.42±0.51, 3.26±0.67, and 2.66±0.67 respectively. 3. The average level for the participants’ average level of recognition was higher than that of practice, showing similarities with existing statistics (t=11.102, p=.000). 4. A married group of participants showed a higher average level of recognition in the protection behavior of patients’ medical information than the unmarried group(t=7.845, p<0.05). There were also differences in the figures upon academic backgrounds. by conduting the Scheffe post-hoc test, the average level for recognition in the protection behavior of patients’ medical information in post graduates were higher than the level in 3-year university graduates(F=3.747, p<0.05). The result of this study suggests that the level of ER nurses’ awareness of practice in protecting patient privacy is weaker than that of recognition. Therefore, the nursing industry should come up with alternatives in order to protect patient privacy and provide a great number of superior nurses, and provide training in order to raise ER nurses’ awareness of practice in protecting patient privacy.

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• 최, 성희

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• 대학원 간호학과
• 200624148

• 응급실간호사
• 환자프라이버시
• 보호행동

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ko

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http://dcoll.ajou.ac.kr:9080/dcollection/jsp/common/DcLoOrgPer.jsp?sItemId=000000009244
000000009244

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oai:repository.ajou.ac.kr:201003/958