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KMID : 1033320140040020068
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Global Health & Nursing
2014 Volume.4 No. 2 p.68 ~ p.77
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Comparative Study of Patients and Nurses in the Perception and Performance to the Emergency Room Nurses’ Behavior for Protecting Patient Privacy
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Joung Min-Young
Jun Seong-Sook
Ha Su-Jung
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to survey and analyze perception of patient privacy protection act and performance of nurses targeting patients who visited emergency room (ER) and nurses to provide basic data for preparing privacy protection measures of ER patients.
Methods: The subjects were 105 patients who visited two local emergency medical centers and 61 emergency room nurses. The data collected were analyzed to the mean and standard deviation, frequency and percentage, independent t-test by using SAS 9.1 program.
Results: Both ER patients and nurses evaluated the degree of ER nurses` patient privacy protection act performance lower than that of perception. Perception of nurses on ER patient privacy protection act was higher than that of patients but nurses themselves evaluated their performance lower than patients. In the area of patient information management - patient consent, perception of nurses was lower than that of patients and nurses themselves evaluated their performance lower than patients.
Conclusion: It is thought that specific education programs to improve the degree of performance as well as the degree of perception on patient privacy protection act of ER nurses. The curriculum about patients` access right to medical information and patients` right as the medical Information subject is required to be opened in universities.
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KEYWORD
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Privacy, Emergency Nurse, Perception, Behavior
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