Evaluation the Observance of Patients Right Charter by Nurses in Elderly inpatient Centers of Khuzestan

Every patient has legal rights without any discrimination when s/he refers to health centers and it must be observed by all of the providers’ services.

The aim of this study is to considering the observance of the contents of patients’ rights by nurses of hospitalization centers of elderlies in Khuzestan province in 2015.

The current study is a descriptive-sectional study. The samples of study were containing of 175 of patients with the ages of more than 65 years old that were chosen by easy sampling method. The gathering tool of data was the researcher’s built questionnaire. After the completion of questionnaires, the data were analyzed by means of SPSS software Ver.22.

As the results of study, the elderlies that were attended in this study reported as follow: the amount of their observance’s rights in secrecy level and protection the privacy (84.6%), in the level of privilege of cares and appropriate remedy (77.1%), presenting the needful information to patients (54.3%), protection the patient’s independence (54.9%), the right of having calmness (61.7%) and absence of non-appropriate behaviors of nurses team (68%) that were in high level. And just in the domain of investigation of protests, the amount of observance rights in most patients (37.1%) that was calculated in an average level.

This study showed that nurses in most areas they respect the rights of the elderly.