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A Study on the Nurses' Attitude and Perception about Whistleblowing

The purpose of this study was to research the nurses' perception and attitude about whistleblowing. This performed a secondary analysis on the existing data from “A Study on the Development of Whistleblowing Scale for Nurses' Perception" by Kwak and Kim(2008). The analysis of the results was carried out using SPSS-12.0 programs for frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, and t-test. The findings showed that the nurses' perception score of whistleblowing was 2.76 (1-4 scale). The number of the nurses who witnessed wrongful acts during their entire work period was 318 out of 485 (65.6%), and only 99 nurses out of 318 reported the acts. The comparison between the nurses' attitude and perception score about whistleblowing showed a meaningful difference. This research found out that the nurses' positive attitude toward whistleblowing is very important in encouraging the nurses to report the unethical acts according to the KNA Ethical Code and Guideline for Nurses.