Introduction: Privacy the basic human needs of the most important concepts in nursing and health care is a fundamental right which is mentioned. Respect patient confidentiality the basic principle of ethical and effective medical practice and care. Privacy information is a very serious problem in crowded areas such as the emergency department. Since that training of clinical staff such as proceedings which can have a positive impact on the information patient's privacy. This study aimed to determine the effect of education on nursing staff regarding the privacy of information on patients in the emergency department has been done.
Method: This is a before-after intervention study with a control group inequalities. 400 patients in the emergency department hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences were selected by convenience sampling method. Before starting the study, two groups of patients and control questionnaire Information Privacy Policy arrangement was measured. The clinical staff virtual learning intervention group patients were given information privacy. Then again, information privacy and control patients in both groups were measured and analyzed.
Results: No significant differences in age, sex, education and other demographic information was found between the two groups at baseline in mean scores were similar physical boundaries After the data analysis showed that the patients' privacy virtual training significantly increased the mean scores Information Privacy patients have been tested.
Conclusion: Results showed that virtual methods can be improved by training nurses in emergency department patients admitted to information privacy.
Salehi T, Eyni E, Sadeghe T. Effect of nursing staff regarding the privacy of information on patients in the emergency department. IJNR 2015; 10 (1) :66-75 URL: http://ijnr.ir/article-1-1482-en.html