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    Protection of nursing care specialists in Bulgaria
    (Maltepe Üniversitesi, 2020) Markova, Stefani; Polihronova, Violeta; Ramadan, Meleksheri
    Summary: The violence in health care is something really income in medical fields in the last few decades. According to “World health organization” the violence is “The intentional use of physical force or power, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either result in or have a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death or psychological harm.”. There are different types of violence. According to one of the classifications, violence can be considered in 3 dimensions: physical - verbal, active-passive, direct - indirect. In Bulgaria, more than 50% of working nurses are victims of one of the three kinds of violence in their workplace. Most common violence among health specialist is verbal and direct-indirect aggression. Introduction: According to Bulgarian definition like an act of violence is consider every act of aggression against a working health specialist that creates a hostile working place or affects physically or mentally a nurse, doctor or every other health specialist. The rights of nurses are protected by “Bulgarian association of health care specialist”. In case of a violation of these rights, it may provide them with a medical defence lawyer. The responsibilities of nurses are included in „Ordinance 1 of February 8, 2011, on Occupational activities that nurses, midwives, associated medical specialists and health assistants can perform by themselves or by request”. Each act of violence against a medical specialist is considering a crime; the offender shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years according to Penal Code of the Republic of Bulgaria. Nurses are the ones who care about the health of the population and should not become patients as a result of violence. Different kinds of organizations are created to protect the rights of nurses from patient’s aggression. Nurses, as a part of the healthcare system, must be respected and valued because they protect the health, the most important human value. Materials and Methods: document method – analysis of literary sources Results and Discussion: The purpose of this research was to present the laws protecting nurses in Bulgaria and the penalties imposed on offenders.