Clinical trial NCT06370377: Nurses' Adherence to Professional Nursing Code of Ethics and Quality of Nursing Care Satisfaction
Official title: Critical and Medical-Surgical Nurses' Adherence to Professional Nursing Code of Ethics and Quality of Nursing Care Satisfaction
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Professional Role
Nurse's Role
Ethics, Narrative
Satisfaction, Patient
Lead sponsor: Matrouh University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-04-17
Enrollment: 400
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Nurses: A convenience sampling was carried out on 400 nurses; 200 nurses in critical care units and 200 nurses in medical-surgical care units.400 alert, conscious and educated patients

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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Questionnaire to measure source of nurses' knowledge about Egyptian code of ethics
timeFrame: one month
measure: Observational checklist to measure
timeFrame: one month
measure: Questionnaire to measure patient satisfaction with the quality of nursing care
timeFrame: one month
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Mersa Matruh
country: Egypt
facility: Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University
Study officials:
affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University, Egypt
name: Nagah Abd El-Fattah Mohamed Aly, Ph.D
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University, Egypt
name: Wael M. Lotfy, Ph.D
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt
name: Safaa M. El-Shanawany, Ph.D
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt
name: Maha Ghanem, Ph.D
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University , Egypt
name: Hanaa Abbass, Ph.D
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University , Egypt
name: Maysa Elbiaa, Ph.D
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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