Observance of professional ethics in the performance of invasive procedures by nurses

Nurses are faced with challenging ethical issues, and this is making hard making decisions for them. The aim of this study was to determine respect to ethics in performing invasive procedures in educational hospitals in Zahedan University of medical sciences. This study is cross - sectional study and samples were included 200 nurses working in adults parts of selected hospitals. The research instrument was a questionnaire and checklist questionnaire including demographic information about the subjects. The checklist includes 15 questions or desired behavior on the performance in the process of bloodletting venipuncture. Researchers with refer to the adults parts and access to specimens, gave the questionnaires to the data units and then they completed related checklist separately for two observations for at least 15 days, each time for a fulltime work. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and chi-square tests, exact Fisher's test and Pearson correlation. Results showed that the high percentage of research units have had bad performance in ethical process. So it is suggested that managers, planners and who training nursing pay attention to respect to professional ethics by nurses with educational programs during working, educational workshops and formulate needed policies.