• Mrs. Amudhavalli. P

Laws and Ethics are moral principles that govern how the person or a group will behave or conduct themselves. The focus pertains to the right and wrong of actions and encompasses the decisions making process of determining the ultimate consequences of those actions. Safe nursing practice includes an understanding of the legal boundaries in which nurses must function. An understanding of laws and ethics are essential to the delivery of skilled professional care. It is vital that nurses appreciate the value of laws and ethics in their work. Laws and Ethics are relevant to clinical practice-based issues and affects all areas of professional nursing role. To apply laws and ethics effectively, nurses must develop reasoning skills and understand the concept and principles that assist legal and ethical analyses. A study was conducted to assess the knowledge regarding nursing laws and ethics among nurses in selected tertiary care hospital. Objectives of the study: To assess the knowledge regarding laws in nursing among the nurses, to assess the knowledge regarding ethics in nurses among nurses, to find the association between nursing laws and ethics with selected demographic variables. Methods: The study was conducted at a selected tertiary care hospital, Mangalore. A Descriptive study method with a quantitative research approach was used for the study. The research design initiated was non-experimental descriptive research design. The sample size was 30. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the samples. The tool used for the data collection was questionnaire covering socio-demographic information and questions regarding laws and ethics. The statistical method used to analyse the data were by descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The result shows that highest percentage (83.4) of the sample had average level of knowledge 10 % have good knowledge and 6.6% had poor knowledge regarding nursing laws and 63.4% had average level of knowledge, 13.3% had good knowledge and 23.3% had poor knowledge regarding nursing ethics. The chi-square and Yates correction computed between knowledge and selected demographic variables shows that there was significant association between demographic variables such as age, designation and there was no significant association between demographic variables such as gender, religion, marital status, qualification, experience and area of work. Conclusion: The findings show that there was significant association between knowledge and demographic variables such as age, designation and there was no significant association between knowledge and demographic variables such as gender, religion, marital status, qualification, experience and area of work.

knowledge, nursing laws, ethics among nurses, tertiary care hospital

"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING NURSING LAWS AND ETHICS AMONG NURSES IN A SELECTED TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL, MANGALORE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 6, page no.d270-d279, June-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2506333.pdf

"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING NURSING LAWS AND ETHICS AMONG NURSES IN A SELECTED TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL, MANGALORE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 6, page no. ppd270-d279, June-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2506333.pdf