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The Effect of Nurse's Professional Self-concept, Sense of Ethics on the Performance of Protecting Patient Privacy

간호사의 전문직 자아개념과 윤리의식이 환자 개인정보보호 실천도에 미치는 영향

  • 최동원 (인천가톨릭대학교 간호학과) ;
  • 박영미 (안산대학교 간호학과)
  • Received : 2020.12.02
  • Accepted : 2020.12.20
  • Published : 2020.12.31

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between professional self-concept, sense of ethics and performance of protecting patient privacy of nurses in the hospital. The subjects are 196 nurses who have been working in general hospitals in K province in Korea and the data collection period was from June 1 to July 5 in 2018. As a result, The score of each variables were like this: professional self-concept 2.62, sense of ethics 2.93 and performance of protecting patient privacy 3.69. It was confirmed that the factors which affect to the performance of protecting patient privacy are ethical awareness and professional self-concept of the nurses. and these explained 30% of that performance. Therefore, it need to develop and adapt the education programs to improve the sense of ethics and professional self-concept of nurses which can help them to increase their performance of protecting patient privacy and to add, we suggest that there need a mandatory system for nurses to receive conservative education about the practice of protecting patient privacy.

본 연구는 간호사의 전문직 자아개념과 윤리의식이 환자의 개인정보보호 실천도에 미치는 영향을 파악하고자 시도되었다. 연구대상은 K도에 소재한 종합병원에 재직 중인 간호사 196명으로, 2018년 6월 1일부터 7월 5일까지 전문직 자아개념과 윤리의식 및 환자 개인정보보호 실천도를 설문조사하였다. 연구결과 대상자의 전문직 자아개념은 4점 만점에 2.62점, 윤리의식은 4점 만점 중 2.93점, 환자 개인정보보호 실천도는 5점 만점 중 3.69점이었다. 환자 개인정보보호 실천도에 영향을 미치는 요인은 윤리의식, 전문직 자아개념으로 확인되었으며, 이들 변수들은 환자 개인정보보호 실천도를 30% 설명하였다. 따라서 병원 간호사의 환자 개인정보보호 실천도를 높이기 위해서는 간호사의 윤리의식을 높이고 전문직 자아개념을 향상시킬 수 있는 신규간호사를 위한 교육과 경력간호사를 위한 주기적인 재교육 프로그램이 마련되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

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