The Perception of risk to preserve the Code of ethics in nursing for nurses at Somdechphrapinklao Hospital Naval Medical Department

Abstract

This study was a descriptive research with the objective of assessing the perception of professional nurse in Somdechphrapinklao Hospital, Department of Navy Medicine The studied population were 184 nurses in the hospital, the trial need for collecting data were questionnaires. Statistics used for analysis of personal variable were frequency and percentage, analysis of perception relating to nursing ethical practice were mean, standard deviation, independent t-test and One Way Analysis variance (ANOVA).

The study found that the most of the studies population were female (80.40%) age 30 – 40 years (41.80%) married (51.10%) professional nurse RN 5 with more than 15 years of working experience (37.50%) had bachelor education (89.10%) all of them worked in 50 divisions in the hospital. The study found that the overall perception of Professional nurse was very high (74.00%) in the aspect of  treating the patient or client was in high level (x̅=4.39)  aspect of treating professional colleague/working colleague was in high level (x̅=4.30) aspect of research and experiment in human was in very high level (x̅=4.76) aspect of advertisement about nursing and midwifery professional practice was in very high level (x̅=4.60) and aspect of having respect to human dignity was in very high level (x̅=4.55). Analysis of difference in perception of classified by sex found that there were difference in perception of Professional nurse both by aspect and by overall with statistical difference at p=0.05, the Professional nurse with difference in age had difference in perception of Professional nurse in the aspect of “respect of to human dignity” with statistical significance at p=0.05, the nurse with difference in working experience did not have difference in perception of Professional nurse. The study found that nurses working in difference division had difference in perception of Professional nurse with statistical significance at p=0.05

Research recommendation: The administration of the hospital should improve the inefficiency of complaint for service management to decrease the risk of inefficient medical treatment and advancing to higher standard medical and nursing services.