• Women's Health Nursing
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.268-278
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• 2012

Purpose: This study aims to determine obstetric and gynecologic (OBGY) nurses' perception and performance propecting patients' privacy, and to contribute to develop educational program and improve the quality of nursing care. Methods: 206 OBGY nurses in 6 hospitals using an electronic medical record or an order communicating system were chosen by convenience sampling and agreed to participate in the study. The questionnaire, explored 4 domains of privacy: direct nursing, linked business, patient information management, communication with relatives. Results: Perception and performance of protecting patient privacy averaged 4.29 (of 5) and 3.55 (of 5), respectively. Most nurses (94.2%) recognized the importance of protecting patient privacy, 80.1% received patient privacy education. There was a distinct difference between the perception and performance of protecting patient privacy of nurses. Performance of protecting patient privacy had a positive correlation with perception. Conclusion: Proper performance of protecting privacy protection requires improving perception of each nurse on the patient privacy, and various efforts should be made to minimize the affect from external factors such as hospital environment. It is needed to educate nurses for patient privacy. It is also needed for medical organizations to improve their policies and facilities to ease the performance for privacy protection.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.204-212
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• 2007

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the patient's perception of the nurse's behavior in protecting patient privacy and to make suggestions for medical facilities to increase protection of patient privacy. Method: The research was a survey study The data on protection of privacy in primary nursing, for physical privacy, of patient information and in private conversations were collected in October 2005 from 187 patients in a university hospital. Frequencies, means, t-test, ANOVA, and $x^2$-test were used to analyze the data. The SPSS 13.0 for Windows program was used. Results: The mean score for patients' perception of nurse protection of their privacy was 3.33. There were significant differences in perception of protecting patients' privacy according to gender for private conversation, according to level of education for all but physical nursing and for number of admissions for total score and for primary nursing. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest the following: a) Institutional polices and nursing guideline should be clearly stated as to the nurses' duty to protect patient privacy. b) Medical facilities should be arranged in a way that allows for the protection of patients' medical information, and should focus on patient privacy. c) It is necessary of nurses to receive periodic in-service education on protecting patient privacy.

• Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.24-32
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aims to examine level of perception and performance of privacy protection behavior of anesthesia and operating room (OR) nurses for patients who underwent general anesthesia surgery. Methods: Data collection was conducted from August 2020 to January 2021 for a total of 101 participants, consisting of 49 patients and 52 nurses. Independent t-test and Pearson's correlation were conducted using SPSS 21. Results: Anesthesia and OR nurses showed the highest score in patient privacy, followed by patient information management, body privacy, and the lowest score in communication. There was a significant difference between the patient information and the communication. Conclusion: Anesthesia and OR nurses had the highest level of perception and performance of patient privacy protection behavior for body privacy, and the lowest for communication. In addition, there was a significant difference in patient information management and communication. In order to protect the privacy of patients undergoing general anesthesia surgery, efforts are needed to learn standardized nursing knowledge, attitudes, and practice.

• The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.225-234
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing patient privacy protection behavior among nursing students and examine the relationships between these factors. Methods: Participants in this study were 144 nursing students who have experienced clinical practice. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regression with IBM SPSS Win 23.0 program. Results: Professional self-concept and ethical values were factors influencing patient privacy protection behavior among nursing students. These variables explained 21.9% of the variance for patient privacy protection behavior. A higher level of patient privacy protection behavior was associated with higher levels of professional self-concept and ethical values. Conclusion: The findings demonstrate that strategies for enhancing patient privacy protection behaviors of nursing students should include methods for forming images of positive nurses and firming ethical values.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.424-433
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• 2012

Purpose: With the rapid increase in information technology in the medical environment, protection of patient's privacy is a crucial issue to hospital nurses. The purpose of this study was to determine neonatal nurses' perception and performance of behavior to protect patient privacy, and professional self-concept, and to investigate the relationships among these variables. Methods: The participants in this descriptive correlation study were 182 nurses in nursery and neonatal intensive care units using EMR or OCS in November, 2011. Results: Perception and performance averaged 4.61 and 4.04 (out of 5) respectively, and the average score for professional self-concept was 2.73 (out of 4). There was a significant difference between perception and performance. The performance of behaviour to protect patient privacy had a positive correlation with perception and professional self-concept. Multiple regression analysis showed that the key determinants of performance were recognition of necessity of patient privacy education, professional self-concept and perception, and these explained 36% of the total variance of performance. Conclusion: Study results indicate a need to establish policy to protect privacy of neonates and their families, and to develop educational programs to enhance neonatal nurses' perception and performance.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.129-138
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• 2020

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.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.693-701
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• 2024

This study examined the relationship between internet ethics, self-control, nursing professionalism, and patient privacy awareness among nursing students with clinical practice experience, and attempted to provide basic data for the development of patient privacy awareness improvement programs reflecting the flow of information age. The data collection period was from November 20 to December 15, 2023. The questionnaires of 142 nursing students who agreed to participate in this study and were enrolled in D and C universities in Daejeon Metropolitan City and Cheongju City were analyzed. The results showed that nursing professionalism and self-control were the influential factors on nursing students' perception of patient privacy. The explanatory power of these variables was 24%. In conclusion, in order to improve the patient privacy awareness of nursing students, it is necessary to explore ways to promote the ethical awareness of internets and develop educational programs to increase nursing professionalism.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.275-281
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• 2015

The recent health care is growing rapidly want to receive offers users a variety of medical services, can be exploited easily exposed to a third party information on the role of the patient's hospital staff (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc.) depending on the patient clearly may have to be classified. In this paper, in order to ensure safe use by third parties in the health care environment, classify the attributes of patient information and patient privacy protection technique using hierarchical multi-property rights proposed to classify information according to the role of patient hospital officials The. Hospital patients and to prevent the proposed method is represented by a mathematical model, the information (the data consumer, time, sensor, an object, duty, and the delegation circumstances, and so on) the privacy attribute of a patient from being exploited illegally patient information from a third party the prevention of the leakage of the privacy information of the patient in synchronization with the attribute information between the parties.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.10
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• pp.2708-2730
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• 2012

The growing concern for the protection of personal information has made it critical to implement effective technologies for privacy and data management. By observing the limitations of existing approaches, we found that there is an urgent need for a flexible, privacy-aware system that is able to meet the privacy preservation needs at both the role levels and the personal levels. We proposed a conceptual system that considered these two requirements: a graph-based, access control model to safeguard patient privacy. We present a case study of the healthcare field in this paper. While our model was tested in the field of healthcare, it is generic and can be adapted to use in other fields. The proof-of-concept demos were also provided with the aim of valuating the efficacy of our system. In the end, based on the hospital scenarios, we present the experimental results to demonstrate the performance of our system, and we also compared those results to existing privacy-aware systems. As a result, we ensured a high quality of medical care service by preserving patient privacy.

• Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.111-129
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• 2003

This study discusses the direction of legislation to strengthen the legal protection of medical records privacy in information age. The legislation trends on privacy protection of medical records in European Union and United States are analysed and the current law and regulation of Korea on medical records are compared. The issues discussed include the ownership of medical records, the patient's right of access to medical records, medical information publication for other than treatment or insurance processing use, confidentiality responsibility of provider organizations, medical information management in provider organizations, penalty for the unlawful use of patient information. This study concludes that the patients' right on medical record and provider organization's responsibility in processing patient information should be strengthened in order to protect patients' privacy and to conform to the international standard on medical record protection in the information age.