Nurse's rights, caring for patients is the direct responsibility of nurses according to the rights that patients have. In terms of providing nursing care, nurses also have the same rights. Therefore, nurses ,should be aware of there rights and protect their own rights and those of their fellow professionals, as Miss Florence Nightingale stated when establishing Modern Nursing by establishing the Nightingale School of Nursing to produce nurses based on her modern ideas and beliefs that:
"Rights mean equal responsibiblities of women and men. Therefore, women have the rights to receive the same education as men. Women have the rights to show their abilities and work in the same professional as men with equal compensation."
Nursing rights come from human righats, asme as patient's rights, which are the acceptance of human actions that include feelings from using intelligence and thinking, just like women's rights. It is equality in dignity and opportunity that has been defined as civil rights, which are rights under the constitution that everyone must receive equally as individual rights. In terms of personnel rights (Employee Rights), it is the rights to be protected by law according to the nature of work and compensation for each job as specified. Professional Rights are the powers under professional law and related laws.
The Michigan Nurses Association in the United States has stated the rights of nurses as nurses and as human beings like any other person as follows:
1. Each nurse has a responsibility to provide the institution or agency in which he or she works with details of his or her past, current, and future educational qualifications, experience, clinical competence, and moral beliefs affecting his or her practice.
2. Each nurse has a responsibility to change, adapt, or withdraw from situations or events that create feelings of conflict with their knowledge, abilities, and beliefs.
3. The institution or agency where the nurse works must allocate materials and equipment to provide adequate health services to service recipients.
4.Nurses have the right and responsibility to collaborate with the institutions or agencies in which they work to improve the environment for providing better health services.
5.The organization or institution in which the nurse works must respect and trust the knowledge, abilities, values and personal characteristics of each nurse in performing their duties.
In Fagin and Paulen (cited in Siwalee Sirilai, 2013), they mentioned four rights of nurses as follows:
1. Nurses have the rights to create a relationship model with patients by planning nursing care and performing nursing operations as deemed appropriate and suitable for each patient according to professional principles. At the same time, they have the right to receive the recognition, trust, respect and rewards that they deserve.
2. Nurses have the rights to understand and accept their own feelings, the feelings of each individual, which are internal matters of the individual's mind regarding emotions and feelings. Not understanding one's feelings can lead to self-denial and coldness. If each nurse is aware and understands their feelings, they can control their feelings.
3.Nurses have the rights to maintain their dignity and self-expression, which means having the right to listen, question, doubt, make mistakes, or not answer when ethical decisions need to be made. Nurses have the rights to receive advice, assistance and cooperation from others. They have the rights to have others help them to understand and dispel their own fears and grievances just like others.
4. Nurses have the rights to be released from working conditions that undermine their own health, as ordinary people, just like everyone else. Nurses have both strengths and weaknesses. In the case of working conditions that cause stress, anxiety or frustration, some moral issues cannot be resolved. Nurses have the rights to withdraw or withdraw from the situation because providing quality nursing services depends on the well-being of the individual nurse. A nurse whose physical and mental health are not perfect cannot provide quality services to other people.
In view of the rights mentioned above, it is highly appropriate for nurses to protect their rights by studying to understand their roles and responsibilities and to be able to correctly demonstrate their rights. In summary, the rights of nurses
The rights of nurses as professionals are as follows:
1. The right to maintain one's dignity, to demonstrate one's ability to practice a profession based on one's education and to pursue self-learning in order to enhance and promote one's own abilities, one's profession and the institution.
2. The rights to be respected for work under appropriate circumstances and environment.
3. The rights to work in a good environment that is safe for both physical and mental health.
4. The rights to control nursing practice by individuals in their own profession.
5. The rights to determine the standards and quality of professional practice.
6. The rights to participate in determining national nursing-related policies.
7. The rights to demonstrate social power as a type of health professional.
