Study of respecting patients rights from nurses point of view employed in Yazd hospitals

Respecting patient’s rights are those factors that they expect from health centers. It means that the patients regardless to their age, sex, race, and other differences have some rights such as: knowing, selecting, being respected, confidentiality, territoriality and receiving efficient care and objection. Nurses duty also is to respect patient, rights. This is a cross-sectional study which is done in order to determine the nurse’s level of respect for the patient’s rights. This study carried out on 280 nurses was selected through stratified randomized sampling. Data was collected via a questionnaire about demographic information and patient’s rights situations for measured level of respect, which is Analized via SPSS soft were. The result showed moderate respect for patient’s rights. In more than half of cases (9.78±2.60) The result indicated a meaningful different between respect for patient’s rights and work (p=0.006). Results show that patient’s rights regarding the importance of matter is at medium level which isn’s satisfactory and to increase. These recipients of health care it is necessary to do some neasures such as: approval of laws related to patient’s and nurses rights & creation sanctions in order to observe better & qualified patient’s care