Explaining the Concept of Ethics in Home Health Care Nursing: Content Analysis

Introduction: Adherence of home care nurses to ethics in care, while improving the quality of nursing care, also improves patient satisfaction. Therefore, nurses must have ethical in care competency. The purpose of this study is to explain of ethical competency in care at home. Methods: The qualitative content analysis study is conventional that was conducted in home health care centers in Tehran in 2020, With purposive sampling, 15 home health care nurses were selected and data were collected using semi-structured individual and in-depth interviews, sampling continue to data saturation. Then, the analysis was performed by the method of conventional content analysis in accordance with Zhang's (2009) approach. Findings: Content analysis of the data led to the extraction of the 187 cods, 23 subcategories, 5 categories and one theme of ethics in home care that included five categories: Commitment in ethical practice, Ethical decision-making, Respect for patient rights, Care based on patient culture, and Maintaining patient autonomy. Conclusions: The findings of the study is ethical competency of home health care nurses, which contributes to practice nurses can assess their professional activity and completed and refined your practice , That the  result is to improve the quality of care and increase patient, family and nurses satisfaction.