Nursing Students' and Educators' Perception toward Nursing Students' Rights and Its relation to Nursing Students' Satisfaction

Background: Students' rights has become an important part of modern education due to when thenursing students know their rights and reach it, they experience high satisfaction as there is almostuniversal agreement regarding the importance of student rights across the educational system. Thestudy aimed to assess nursing students' and educators' perception toward nursing students' rightsand its relation to nursing students' satisfaction. Study design: Descriptive correlational design wasutilized to conduct this study. Study setting: The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing,Benha University. Subjects: Included simple random sample of undergraduate nursing students'from all four academic years 332 out from 1962 who are enrolled at academic year 2019/2020 andavailable nursing educators' 125 out from 173 at the above mentioned study setting. Tools: Twotools were used for data collection: (I) Nursing students' rights questionnaire and (II) Nursingstudents’ Satisfaction Scale (NSSS). Results: Showed that the majority (78.9% & 95.2%) ofstudied nursing students’ and educators' had high perceived level toward nursing students' rightsrespectively. Also, nearly half (48.8 %) of studied nursing students’ had high satisfaction level.Conclusion: The study concluded that there was positive statistical significant correlation betweentotal perception of nursing students' and educators' toward nursing student rights and total nursingstudents' satisfaction .Recommendation: Disseminating this created bill of rights and at all facultiesin Benha Universities, also posted students' rights in sites accessible to all students and publishingthem on faculty websites and educators use technology effectively and work collaboratively witheach other.