Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine
Vol 1 No 2 (2017): JHSM (September 2017)

The Determinants of Ethical Principle Implementation in Nursing

Ni Putu Emy Darmayanti (University of Indonesia)
Hanny Handiyani (University of Indonesia)
Kuntarti Kuntarti (University of Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Jan 2018

Abstract

The determinant of nursing ethics practice is not identified yet. This problem affects the ethical behavior of nurses in performing nursing care. According to that, it was influencing satisfaction and patient well-being. This study aims to identify the determinants of the ethical principles application in nursing. Descriptive, correlation, cross-sectional design was applied, through simple random sampling to 120 nurses. Data collecting used questionnaires, with univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyzes. Determinants of nursing ethic application principle were job characteristics, nurses knowledge related to nursing ethics, supervision by supervisor, relationship with colleagues, awards, the role of head nurse, and tenure (p = <0,001-0,049). The most dominant variable was job characteristics (p <0,001). These factors need an attention by hospital manager to keep evaluating the other factors in order to improve the application of ethical principles in nursing.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JHSM

Publisher

Subject

Medicine & Pharmacology

Description

Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine is an Indexed peer-reviewed open access journal which publishes original scientific articles, reviews and short communications that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The journal publishes papers based on original research that are judged ...