Study of obedience of nursing-patient relationship principles from the viewpoints of patients and nurses

Abstract

Introduction: Relationship is like an umbrella covering and affecting all interpersonal deals. It is important not only for daily life but for the time of diseases when preserving the life is crucial. Pain and diseases are reported through interrelation communications, which give the health team necessary information about inside feelings of the patients to be treated. Nurses assess patients' needs by their art of interrelation communications and then, plan their interventions. Patients' reliance and security towards the health team are made through interrelation communications, which result in decreasing patients' anxiety.

Methods: This was a descriptive analytic two-group one step study in which 126 patients as well as 61 nurses attended and their viewpoints regarding efficient obedience of interrelation principles were measured. This study focused on comparative study of obedience of nurse-patient interrelations in Al-Zahra hospital in Isfahan. The data were analyzed by regression tests, ANOVA and correlation tests in SPSS software.

Results: The findings were classified in 5 tables reporting a significant difference between viewpoints of patients and nurses regarding obedience principles of nurse-patient interrelations (P=0.001). There was no significant difference in viewpoints of patients and nurses concerning obedience principles of mutual respects (P=0.054). Regarding the self-value feeling, there was a significant difference between viewpoints of nurses and patients (P=0.002). Concerning obedience of sympathetic principles in efficient interrelations, there was a significant difference between viewpoints of patients and nurses (P=0).

Conclusion: Since there was a significant difference in viewpoints of patients and nurses regarding obedience of efficient nurse-patient interrelations, it is a need for nurses to be familiar with patients' viewpoints through continued education to have obedience in efficient nurse-patient interrelations.