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Aim. This study was conducted to examine the effect of nursing ethics workshop on patients rights practiced by nurses in the emergency department.

Background. According to the goals of 20 years vision and development plans of Iran, moving toward improving the quality and safety of patients and their rights are of the main priorities of health care system approved by national and international experts and authorities.

Method. This study is quasi-experimental study with control group. To measure dependent variable (patient’s right practice by nurses), before and after intervention, perspectives of 180 patients admitted to emergency department were selected by convenience sampling. Intervention was implemented for emergency department nurses. All emergency department staff nurses working in a governmental hospital in the City Shahriar, Iran, were selected. The data were collected through a questionnaire composed of 2 parts, demographic information and 15 questions designed based on patients rights protocol in 5 domains with Likert scale. In order to ensure reliability, Cronbach’s Alpha was calculated for internal consistency coefficient through interviews with 20 patients (α=0.84). Validity of the questionnaire was evaluated by 10 experts. The questionnaire were completed before and one month after intervention through interviewing with patients admitted to the emergency department during the data collection time period. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 22.

Findings. Before intervention, the mean score of patient’s right practice was 58.83±16.81 and after intervention, the mean score of patient’s right practice increased to 84±8.12. There was a statistically significant difference between the mean total score of patient’s rights practice based on patients perspectives, before and after intervention (p˂0.0001). The lowest score for patient’s rights practice was reported for the domain information giving (15%) and the highest score was reported for the domain respect for privacy (82.7%).

Conclusions. The intervention (nursing ethics workshop) has a positive effect on patient’s rights practice by nurses in the emergency department.

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Abstract
Aim. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in nurses of critical care units of hospitals affiliated to Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. 
Background. Nurses encounter conditions during taking care for clients that can lead to a type of fatigue called compassion fatigue. Ethical sensitivity as the basis of ethics in nursing can be helpful in reducing nursing care problems.
Method. This study was a cross-sectional descriptive-correlational study in which 200 nurses working in critical care units of hospitals affiliated to Qazvin University of Medical Sciences were recruited in the study through census sampling method and inclusion criteria. Demographic characteristic form, and the compassion fatigue questionnaire and moral sensitivity questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were analyzed in SPSS version 19 using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Findings. The mean score of moral sensitivity was 53.21±13.69 and the mean score of compassion fatigue was 25.55±4.66. Spearman correlation coefficients revealed that there was a statistically significant and reverse correlation between moral sensitivity and compassion fatigue among critical care nurses (r=0.171, p=0.015).
Conclusion. The moral sensitivity of critical care nurses is related to their compassion fatigue. Therefore, provision of a framework for strengthening the moral sensitivity of nurses could be effective in reducing this phenomenon.