Professional Boundary Ethics Attitudes and Awareness Among Nurses and Physicians in a University Hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
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| Authors: | Hani Tamim Fayez Hejaili Amr Jamal Huda al Shamsi Abdulla Al Sayyari |
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| Affiliation: | 1. King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences;2. King Abdulaziz Medical City |
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| Abstract: | This study sought to gauge ethical attitudes about professional boundary issues of physicians and nurses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Respondents scored 10 relevant boundary vignettes as to their ethical acceptability. The group as a whole proved “aware/ ethically conservative,” but with the physicians' score falling on the “less ethically conservative” part of the spectrum compared to nurses. The degree of ethicality was more related to profession than to gender, with nurses being more “ethical” than physicians. |
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| Keywords: | professional boundaries medical ethics Saudi Arabia |
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