Background:Patient's rights are an important issue for achieving quality in health care. Patient`s rights are a comprehensive statement that helps patients to understand their rights and responsibilities. The aim: to investigate perception of the patients versus nurses regarding patient's bill of rights. Design: comparative descriptive study was used. Setting: the study conducted at Diarb Negm general hospital. Subjects: Two groups of subjects were included in the present study: nurses group and patients` group. Tool: one questionnaire sheet which includes two parts: first part was personal characteristics; and the second part was patient`s bill of rights Questionnaire sheet. Results: the study showed that most of nurses had a positive perception toward patient`s rights, also, most of patients had a positive perception toward patient`s rights. Conclusion: the study findings showed that there is a significant difference in perception in two study group (nurses and patients) especially in the perception of general rights. Recommendation: the study recommended that the concept of patient`s rights should be included in the undergraduate and postgraduate study in nursing. The hospital should foster patients` awareness of their rights.
Context: The nursing program's success depends to a great extent on effective clinical learning experience. Clinical instructors can utilize professional standards to identify areas for improvement in clinical practice. The importance of content validity of the developed standards and its relevance with reliability, have made it an essential step in the standards development.
Aim: This study aims to design and validate performance standards for clinical instructors at the Technical Institutes of Nursing. Methods: The methodological design was utilized. This study was conducted in two sectors: Technical Institutes of Nursing at Port Said and Ismailia City, and their practical training settings. Two groups of participants were included in the study: clinical instructors and experts’ group. The data was collected using two tools: An observational checklist and an expert opinion sheet.
Results: The proposed performance standards had an appropriate level of content validity. The overall value of scale-content validity/universal agreement (S-CVI/UA) was equal to 0.852, and the overall value of scale-content validity/average (S-CVI/AVE) was equal to 0.988. The overall interrater reliability value of the proposed standards was 0.852. There were statistically significant differences between pre and post dissemination of the proposed standards in the total mean percentages in all standards (p<0.001).
Conclusions: This study concluded that the proposed developed standards are acceptable for use in the Technical Institutes of Nursing. The study recommended that the developed standards be applied and communicated to all clinical instructors in the Technical Institutes of Nursing, with clinical instructors' training on its implementation.
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