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@article{188604,
        author = {Mrs. Jyoti Phougat and Mrs. Payal Saini},
        title = {A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND EXPRESSED PRACTICES REGARDING LEGAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBLITIES AMONG STAFF NURSES WORKING IN SELECTED HOSPITALS OF AMBALA, HARYANA},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {3606-3612},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=188604},
        abstract = {Nurses are one of the largest professionals working in the health care system. Nursing ethics refers to the ethical standards that governs and guide nurses in every day practice such as "being truthful with client" "Respecting client confidentiality" And "advocating on behalf of the client. Legal aspects is defined as the activity of the nurse that legally permitted while taking care of the sick patient. The knowledge of legal and ethical responsibilities is integral with the expanding clinical role and logical application of the planned, systematic and focused care, which should be the goal of Modern Nursing. Objectives of the study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and expressed practices regarding legal and ethical responsibilities among staff nurses working in selected hospital Ambala, Haryana. To determine the correlation and association between knowledge, attitude and expressed practices regarding legal and ethical responsibilities with selected sample characteristics. Method: Quantitative research approach and non experimental descriptive research design was used and 266 nurses were selected by convenience sampling technique. The study includes sample characteristics, knowledge questionnaire, and attitude Likert scale and expressed practices checklist. Results: The result shows that the majority 43.6% of staff nurses had below average level of knowledge while 33.4% had average knowledge and 15.03% of staff nurses had good knowledge. Furthermore, the majority of staff nurses 83.8% had unfavourable attitude and 30% had moderately favourable attitude regarding legal and ethical responsibilities. While the majority of staff nurses 57.51% had fair practices and 39.8% had bad practices regarding legal and ethical responsibilities. With the help of Karl Pearson's formula, coefficient of correlation was (r=0.123), which depicts that there was a positive correlation between knowledge attitude and expressed practices scores. The study conclude that if nurses apply knowledge regarding legal and ethical responsibilities during their clinical practices it will help them to prevent themselves from legal and ethical issues and provide quality care to the patient.},
        keywords = {Legal responsibilities, Ethical responsibilities, Nurses},
        month = {December},
        }