Journal of Nursing and Health Studies

Factors affecting hospital ethical climate perception and malpractice susceptibility of nurses

6^th International Conference on Advance Nursing Practice
June 21-22, 2018 Paris, France

Nuray Turan and Nurten Kaya

Istanbul University, Turkey

ScientificTracks Abstracts: J Nurs Health Stud

DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C3-008

Abstract

Present study was conducted in a cross-sectional manner with the aim of examining the hospital ethical climate perception and malpractice tendencies of nurses in terms of some variables. At the mentioned hospital, the number of nurses in the bedside sections of the hospital is 645. Total 275 bedside staff nurses created the sample of the study and those nurses were selected by using stratified random sampling. The data was collected by using the nurse information form, The hospital ethical climate survey (HECS) and malpractice susceptibility scale (MSS). The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS statistics 21. The average point of HECS of nurses is 81.73 (SD=16.31, potential range=26-130, minimum=40, maximum=125), average point of MSS is 228.64 (SD=18.69, potential range=49-245, minimum=97, maximum=245). Also, 94.9% of the nurses are female (n=261), average age is 36.64 years (SD=8.33; minimum=22; maximum=63), 65.8% (n=181) of them are married, 55.6% (n=153) of them have children, 65.8% (n=181) of them have bachelor’s degree, 72.7% (n=200) of them are staff nurse, the average duration of professional experience is 14.69 years (SD=8.95; minimum=1; maximum=39), the average duration of experience at unit where they work now is 10.47 years (SD=8.65; minimum=1; maximum=38), 21.1% (n=58) of them are a member of National Nurses Association. On the other hand, it was determined that 64.7% (n=178) of the nurses had chosen nursing profession voluntarily, 65.5% (n=180) of the nurses sometimes think about leaving the nursing profession, 9.8% (n=27) of the nurses had made a mistake that would put patient safety in jeopardy, 60.7% (n=167) of nurses had testified that another nurse made a mistake that would put patient safety in jeopardy, 54.9% (n=135) of the nurses has read the National Patients' Rights Regulation. It was found that none of these variables which are examined had any effect on malpractice susceptibility; only the age and duration of experience in the unit showed a weak relationship with the hospital ethical climate perception.
 

Biography

Nuray Turan has completed her PhD from Istanbul University, Institute of Health Sciences. She works at Istanbul University Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Department of Fundamentals of Nursing since 2005. She was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the same institution in 2013 and is still working in the same position at the Department of Fundamentals of Nursing. She graduated from Istanbul University, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, Turkey. Her areas of interest are nursing care, wounds care, nursing process, simulation, intramuscular injection, complementary therapy, nursing informatics. She worked as a Researcher in the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey on The Reliability of Site Determination Methods in Ventrogluteal Area Injection and The Depth of Needle Penetration in the Ventrogluteal Intramuscular Injection Site of Adults According to the Gender and Body Mass Index.  She took part as an Executive and Researcher in the Scientific Research Project Unit at Istanbul University. She has many parts in various books as an Author. She has been as a Speaker and Participant in many national and international scientific activities (congress, symposium, courses etc.) related to fundamentals of nursing. She also has various congress awards. She is a Member of Turkish Nurses Society, and Nursing Education Society.
Email:nkaraman@istanbul.edu.tr

Email:nuray_karaman@yahoo.com