Nurses' Adherence to Professional Nursing Code of Ethics and Quality of Nursing Care Satisfaction

Critical and Medical-Surgical Nurses' Adherence to Professional Nursing Code of Ethics and Quality of Nursing Care Satisfaction

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06370377

Enrollment

400

Registered

2024-04-17

Start date

2022-12-01

Completion date

2023-02-28

Last updated

2024-04-17

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Conditions

Ethics, Narrative, Nurse's Role, Professional Role, Satisfaction, Patient

Brief summary

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.

Interventions

OTHERthe Egyptian code of ethical practice

Nurses' adherence to the Egyptian code of ethical practice

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Questionnaire to measure source of nurses' knowledge about Egyptian code of ethics	one month	source of nurses' knowledge about Egyptian code of ethics as assessed using a binary scale of yes=1 and no =0.
Observational checklist to measure	one month	nurses' adherence to an Egyptian professional nursing code of ethical practice as assessed using three ranking scales (never practice (0 points) or sometimes practice (0.5 points) and always practice (1 point).
Questionnaire to measure patient satisfaction with the quality of nursing care	one month	Patient satisfaction with quality of nursing care as assessed using five Likert scales ranging from 1 = poor and 5 = excellent.

Countries

Egypt

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026