Nurses attribution to the role of patient advocacy in intensive care units of hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences

One of the key concepts in nursing ethics, is patient advocacy that can bring benefi ts to patients, nurses and nurse treatment system to be followed, but for various reasons are not able to play a full role. Thus, knowing their attitudes towards their role as patient advocate can be a way to improve the performance of nurses in this role. This study aimed to investigate nurses’ attitudes about their role as patient advocate in intensive care units of teaching hospitals depended to medical universities in Tehran. This cross-sectional study on 259 adult ICU nurses working in hospitals dependent medical universities in Tehran was conducted in 2015. The questionnaire was used to collect data. Data signifi cance level of 5% with independent t test, Pearson correlation coeffi cient and ANOVA were analyzed. Regression analysis also combined effect of demographic variables on nurses’ attitude of defense was used. This study showed that the overall attitude of critical care nurses to patient advocacy role was relatively positive (3.68). between attitude advocacy mark and some demographic characteristics such as age, economic status, general work experience, educational experience and a special section there was a signifi cant relationship (p <0/05).It seems that strategies such as workshops for nursing education can help to improve the role and thereby improve patient satisfaction.