The Relationship between the Nurses' Perception of Electronic Health Records and Patient Privacy.

EXPERIENTIAL learning; MEDICAL ethics; NURSES; NURSES' attitudes; PRIVACY; PUBLIC hospitals; QUESTIONNAIRES; T-test (Statistics); WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; EDUCATIONAL attainment; DATA analysis software; ELECTRONIC health records; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ONE-way analysis of variance

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the nurses' perception of electronic health records and patient privacy regarding patient information and socio-economic variables. The implementation part of the study was conducted on nurses working in a public hospital located in the Kilis province in Turkey. As a result of the analysis, the increase in the perceptions of the participants regarding the electronic health records statistically increases their perceptions about patient privacy. It was also determined that the scores of nurses regarding patient privacy showed statistically significant differences based only on the total working time in the current unit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]