Determining the Attitudes of Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units towards Maintaining the Privacy of Patients: A University Hospital Example

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this research was to determine the attitudes of nurses working in intensive care units maintaining the privacy of patients. Material and Methods: This research was planned as a descriptive and cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 100 nurses working in the internal medicine and surgical intensive care units of a university hospital in the Marmara region of Turkey between November 2024 and March 2025, all of whom agreed to participate voluntarily. A Nurses’ Description Form and a Patient Privacy Scale were used to collect research data. Results: It was found that the nurses’ attitudes towards maintaining patient privacy were very positive (4.65±0.35), and that the highest score was obtained from the sub-dimension of bodily privacy (4.76±0.37). Significantly higher mean scores were found in the sub-dimension of sexually-related privacy of female nurses compared to male nurses, as well as in the overall Patient Privacy Scale mean scores and all its sub-dimensions for nurses who had read the patients’ rights management compared to those who had not (p<0.05). Conclusion: The research findings showed that intensive care nurses had a very positive attitude towards maintaining patient privacy, and that these attitudes were affected by their gender and their knowledge of regulations concerning patients’ rights.

Keywords

• Intensive care
• nursing care
• patients’ rights
• privacy

Yoğun Bakımda Çalışan Hemşirelerin Hasta Mahremiyetinin Sağlanmasına Yönelik Tutumlarının Belirlenmesi: Bir Üniversite Hastanesi Örneği

Abstract

Amaç: Bu araştırmanın amacı yoğun bakım ünitelerinde çalışan hemşirelerin hasta mahremiyetinin sağlanmasına yönelik tutumlarının belirlenmesidir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Bu çalışma, tanımlayıcı ve kesitsel tasarımda bir çalışma olarak planlandı. Araştırmanın örneklemini Kasım 2024-Mart 2025 tarihleri arasında Türkiye'nin Marmara bölgesindeki bir üniversite hastanesinin dahili ve cerrahi yoğun bakım ünitelerinde çalışan ve araştırmaya katılmayı gönüllü olarak kabul eden 100 hemşire oluşturdu. Araştırmanın verileri, Hemşire Tanıtım Formu” ve “Hasta Mahremiyet Ölçeği ile toplanıldı. Bulgular: Araştırmaya katılan hemşirelerin, hasta mahremiyetini sağlamaya yönelik tutumlarının çok yüksek (4,65±0,35) olduğu ve en yüksek puanı “bedensel mahremiyet” alt boyutundan (4,76±0,37) aldıkları saptanmıştır. Kadın hemşirelerin erkek hemşirelere göre cinsiyete ilişkin mahremiyet alt boyut puan ortalaması ile hasta hakları yönetmeliğini okuyan hemşirelerin Hasta Mahremiyet Ölçeği genel ve tüm alt boyut puan ortalamalarının, okumayan hemşirelere göre anlamlı derecede yüksek olduğu saptandı (p<0,05). Sonuç: Araştırma bulguları yoğun bakım hemşirelerinin hasta mahremiyetini sağlamaya yönelik tutumlarının çok yüksek olduğunu ve bu tutumlarının çeşitli faktörlerden etkilendiğini göstermiştir.

Keywords

• hasta hakları
• hemşirelik bakımı
• mahremiyet
• Yoğun bakım

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