Abstract: Accountability is an essential concept of professional practice. Nursing practice is surrounded by many legal aspects because nurses are accountable for their professional judgments and action. Nurses deal with the most fundamental human events like birth, death and suffering. They encounter many legal issues surrounding these sensitive areas a good knowledge of legal aspects of health care is necessity. Good knowledge of legal aspects of health care is necessity for the implementation of high quality of nursing practice in the world of latest medical technological advances. The major findings of the study showed that 96.67% of the participants were female, 73.33% of them belong to the age group of 21-30 years of age, 68% were diploma holders, 90.66% of staff nurses were trained from private institutes and 64.67% of them were with 0-5years experience. 30.67% of staff nurses did not attend any in service education. The knowledge scores in each category abbreviations (2.33), legal liability (4.26), legal terms (2.56), legal responsibilities (14.99) and basic rights (1.44). The relationship of selected variables showed that there was no significant relationship between nurses knowledge with their age, gender, duration of clinical experience and in service education. There was a significant relationship between level of knowledge with their professional qualification and training institute ( p<0.05 ).
Keywords: Legal, Accountability, Judgment, Staff nurses, Knowledge
Title: A Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Legal Responsibilities in Nursing
Author: Harpreet Kaur, Jaspreet Kaur Sodhi, Kapil Sharma
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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