A study of nurses' knowledge of the UKCC code of conduct

This study investigated nurses' and midwives' knowledge of the Code of Professional Conduct (UKCC 1992). Knowledge was assumed to be dependent on practitioners' abilities to identify correctly authentic statements and to discriminate against statements which were constructed as distracters. Generally, there was a relatively high mean of correct identification. Certain spheres of responsibility were more likely to be identified than others. These areas involved statements that were practitioner-centred and occurred early in the code. The authors recommend further research into nurses' understanding of the code.