2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Nurses' Perception of Patients' Privacy and the Sharing of Patients' Information among Nurses
| Project/Area Number |
12672288
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
基礎・地域看護学
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| Research Institution | Nagano College of Nursing |
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Principal Investigator |
OTA Katsumasa Nagano College of Nursing, Department of Nursing, Professor, 看護学部, 教授 (60194156)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAHIRO Michiko Nagano College of Nursing, Department of Nursing, Clinical Instructor, 看護学部, 助手 (10326100)
KARASAWA Yumiko Nagano College of Nursing, Department of Nursing, Associate Professor, 看護学部, 助教授 (40277893)
KONISHI Emiko Nagano College of Nursing, Department of Nursing, Professor, 看護学部, 教授 (70011054)
ANNE J. davis Nagano College of Nursing, Department of Nursing, Exprofessor, 看護学部, 教授 (70291573)
MAYUMI Naoya Nagano College of Nursing, Department of Nursing, Clinical Instructor, 看護学部, 助手 (10315848)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | Privacy / Patient's Information / Patient / Nurse / Information Sharing / Information Ethics / SINI / 看護 |
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| Research Abstract |
From 2000 to 2002, we conducted various investigations in order to explore ethical problems in dealing with patients' information from the viewpoint of protection of the privacy of the patients. Despite limited sample size and questionnaire survey methods only, this study has shown several meaningful findings as follows:
1) Perception of privacy of nurses in Japan may not be developed enough yet, therefore they have some difficulties in perceiving privacy of a patient from the viewpoint of professional nurses.
2) Because of limited development of information ethics, when collecting information from the patient, nurses seem to give more priority to a necessity of information for care rather than protection of privacy. On the contrary, in sharing information such as the discharge summary with community nurses, hospital nurses tend to protect patients' information excessively, because there is no criterion for sharing information.
3) It seems that the perception of privacy of patients' information may be influenced by the type of information, to what extent it will be divulged, and with whom.
Of course, patients' information is necessary for their care.
However nurses need to be more sensitive about patients' privacy in collecting the information. This study could present useful information for protection of patients' privacy in their care.
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