Multi Factors Related to Pediatric Nurses, Performance Regarding Legal and Ethical Issues of Children Care

Background: Pediatric nurses are facing issues related to legal and ethical issues daily and make them at risk of losing their license so, they require to enhance and upgrade their knowledge regarding ethical and legal issues and integrate their knowledge when making decisions in the daily practice.Aim: This study aimed to explore multi factors related to pediatric nurses' performance regarding legal and ethical Issues in children care.Methods: A descriptive correlational design was applied and the study was performed at different units in one Pediatric Hospital in Egypt.200 staff nurses from the aforementioned setting were chosen as a convenient sample.Three instruments were utilized to obtain the data; a legal and ethical knowledge questionnaire, a self-administered practice questionnaire, and a selfadministered attitude questionnaire.Continuous data have been analyzed using means and standard deviations, while categorical variables were analyzed by chi-square test.Results: (69%) of the pediatric nurses had poor knowledge, (61%) of them had inadequate practice level, and (60%) of them had negative attitudes regarding legal and ethical issues of children care.Conclusion: the study proved a significant relation between multi factors and pediatric nurses knowledge, practice and attitude, inclusive age, sex, qualification and experience P = 0.001, marital status P = 0.894, 0.849, 1.000 respectively and get training P = 0.001.Recommendation nurse manager should encourage their staff nurses to participate in training programs especially about ethical and legal issues of patient care and to continue their postgraduate education, and to change any conflicting policies that causes legal and ethical problem to their staff.