Abstract: Back ground: Patient’s rights are an important issue for achieving quality in health care so American Hospital Association sets twelve main items of patient’s rights and obligated health care providers to interest and apply them.
Subjects and Methods: Descriptive design was used to assess nurses' perception toward the patient’s rights at Mansoura General Hospital. Subjects all staff nurses working at Mansoura General Hospital with total number (n=268). Data collected through one tool which includes two parts: first part was personal characteristics; and the second part was patient's bill of rights Questionnaire Sheet.
Results: The study findings that most of nurses perceived patient’s rights.
Conclusion: The findings of this study indicated that nurse’s perceived patient’s rights. The training programs and courses are important for increasing nurses’ perception toward the patient’s rights.
Recommendations: The study recommended that hospital administration should increase nurse’s knowledge and perception through courses and training programs about patient’s rights.
Keywords: Nurses, Perception, Patient Rights.
Title: Nurses’ Perception toward Patient's Rights
Author: Asmaa Othman Abdho, Wafaa Fathi Sleem, Reda Shehata El-sayed
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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