Knowledge of Violations of the Court of Honour Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia of Nursing Students

Abstract

Objective: The aim of the research was to discover nursing students' knowledge on violations of nursing, describe in article 42 of the according of the Court of Honour Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia, and to examine differences between the violations in the school years 2007/2008 and 2008/2009. Methods: The study included 230 nursing students. The questionnaire included violations of nursing, describe in article 42 of the according of the Court of Honour Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia. The statistically significant differences by gender, school year as well as secondary school were used Independent T-test. Data was handled using SPSS 17.0 for Windows. Results: The nurses student were too knowledgeable with violations of ≫to break professional secrecy and protect privately and dignity of patients≪. This study showed that nurses students of school year 2008/2009 have a more knowledge about “refusal emergency aid unless that threat to rescuer life≪ (0.033), ≫destroy or to fake up patients data (disguising expert mistake)≪ (0.001) as well as≫ ≫stealing intellectuality property≪ (p = 0.003) than the nursing students of school year 2007/2008. Conclusion: For high-quality nursing is important to know incorrectness in nursing which describe the Court of Honour like violations of nursing. Knowledge on violations of the Court of Honour Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia, can influence students own development to behave well and knowledge of competence as well as skills in nursing. © 2010, Versita, All rights reserved.