The Impact of Nursing Professionalism on Perception of Patient Privacy Protection: Mediating Role of Nursing Informatics Competency and Moderating Role of Nursing Self-Efficacy

Abstract

Purpose: To determine the overall effect of nursing professionalism on the perception of patient privacy protection in the presence of nursing informatics competency as mediator and nursing self-efficacy as moderator.

Design/Methodology: Adopting the convenience sampling technique, the data is collected from 250 nurses in different hospitals from Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan through the adopted questionnaire. SPSS and Smart PLS-SEM have been used for data analysis.

Findings: According to the results, all the hypothesis were found to be significant and supported except hypothesis 5 i.e. Nursing self-efficacy moderates the relationship between nursing professionalism and nursing informatics competency in such a way that the relationship will be strong if nursing self-efficacy is high. Moreover, the results also indicated that nursing informatics competency acts as a mediator between nursing professionalism and perception of patient privacy protection.

Significance: The mediation of nursing informatics competency and moderation of self-efficacy between nursing professionalism and nursing informatics competency is still under research so this makes our research a unique contribution.

Research limitations:  Using a cross-sectional study technique to get study results limits the ability to wrap up set hypothesis regarding the causal connection between the study variables. To resolve the constraint, future researchers should collect data over multiple time phases. Moreover, convenience sampling technique adoption might cause individual bias and the collection of the section of the participants who are not an envoy of the greater part of the population. Due to the adoption of a quantitative research technique, the comprehensive details of a few of the research findings are limited. Consequently, future research should observe a qualitative study design to build up a broad comprehension of the overturn effects.

Implications: This research has managerial implications for nurse managers and nurse leaders.