Among them are lack of resources, limited time, staffing issues, poor collaboration of team members and disciplines, and consequences of patient advocacy. The most common factors affecting advocacy are time and staffing ratios. The reduction in patient length of stay at a facility and the increase in the number of patients that a nurse is assigned decreases the amount of time a nurse gets to spend with a patient. These constraints prevent the nurse from spending the time to truly get to know their patients, and learn their needs holistically to effectively advocate. Poor interdisciplinary collaboration is the next factor. The nurse physician power struggle can have disastrous effects on advocacy. Many nurses fear confrontation from physicians when questioning care for a patient, and several physicians interpret the questioning as insubordination. When this happens many details can be overlooked or ignored creating harm to the patient. Finally consequences of being a patient advocate. When a nurse is placed in a situation where ethical issues arise from advocating it places them in a difficult position with coworkers and can create hostile work environments effecting patient
Among them are lack of resources, limited time, staffing issues, poor collaboration of team members and disciplines, and consequences of patient advocacy. The most common factors affecting advocacy are time and staffing ratios. The reduction in patient length of stay at a facility and the increase in the number of patients that a nurse is assigned decreases the amount of time a nurse gets to spend with a patient. These constraints prevent the nurse from spending the time to truly get to know their patients, and learn their needs holistically to effectively advocate. Poor interdisciplinary collaboration is the next factor. The nurse physician power struggle can have disastrous effects on advocacy. Many nurses fear confrontation from physicians when questioning care for a patient, and several physicians interpret the questioning as insubordination. When this happens many details can be overlooked or ignored creating harm to the patient. Finally consequences of being a patient advocate. When a nurse is placed in a situation where ethical issues arise from advocating it places them in a difficult position with coworkers and can create hostile work environments effecting patient