Assessment Nurses Knowledge Regarding Ethical Issue Toward Patient in Critical Care Unit Select Government Hospital in Khartoum State, Sudan. Descriptive Study

Background: Ethics deal with standards of conduct and moral judgment. Nursing is a profession that care for personal and private aspects of people’s lives. Therefore, nurses need to know the basic ethical aspects of nursing which is integral in nursing practices. Objectives: To assess Nurse’s knowledge regarding ethical issues towards patients in critical care units in governmental hospitals -Khartoum state in Sudan. Method: A descriptive cross sectional research design was used to conduct the study. Simple random sampling method was adopted to select 125 nurses working in governmental hospitals-Khartoum state from 2023-2024 it included 125 nurses. nurses’ knowledge regarding ethical issue to ward patient Self-administered structured questionnaire was used for data collection and analyzed using IBM SPSS Version 25. Descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, Chi-square test was used to analyze the data Result: The findings revealed that 54.5% of nurses had adequate level knowledge. There was significant association between nurses practice level with age and years of experiences (p value= 0.05 and 0.008 respectively). The level of knowledge does not have significant association with socio-demographic and job-related variables. Similarly, significant association between knowledge and practice level of patient care ethics was found. Conclusion: the study concluded that there was satisfactory level of knowledge among nurses at selected hospitals in Khartoum state. Nurses’ knowledge of patient care ethics should be upgraded through educational and awareness program. Recommendations: improving the quality of nursing knowledge should focus more studies to be conducted to improve nurses’ level of awareness regarding ethical issues in nursing, so that proper intervention can be implemented.