Advocacy Nurses have historically played a major role in advocacy dating back to Florence Nightingale (Nickitas‚ Maddaugh & Aries‚ 2016). The advocate role can be defined in several ways‚ and nurses have the ability to advocate to individuals‚ families‚ communities and populations. This paper will attempt to define advocacy and discuss the need for advocacy and identify potential barriers. Patient Advocacy According to Hanks (2010)‚ nurses define advocacy as “intervening on behalf
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ARTICLE REVIEW Article Review Health Policy and Economics DeVry/Keller University Online 05\10\2015 Introduction The purpose of choosing this particle article on: Increased health care cost sharing works as intended: It burdens patients who need care the most by Gould 2013. The fact that it addresses on Cost containments within the healthcare industry‚ caught my attention. As we all‚ are fully aware on the cost of health within the U.S has and will always be a perceptible
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Community Health Promotion Tool: Hypertension Transcript: Hypertension Guest: Hypertension Host: Kimberly Thomas Kimberly Thomas: Good Evening‚ I am Kimberly Thomas. I’m interviewing Hypertension what is a disorder that affects cardiovascular system. Let’s talk about the population and treatment for hypertension. There are a lot of medications for hypertension. What is hypertension? Where do you start for treatment? Hypertension: Hypertension is high blood pressure. Well‚ there are several
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I. INTRODUCTION My advocacy is all about child abuse in the field of physical abusing to those children who are treated imperfectly. I just want to advocate this because sometimes I can see some children who are abused physically. And some children are died because of this. Sometimes I can see some children who are not going to their school because they have a trauma. Their mental condition is affected so their studies are also affected. So‚ I want to solve this problem in order to help other
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Advocacy for Diverse ClienteleName Capella University Advocacy for Diverse ClienteleOne of the populations that has a lot of culturally diverse individuals is the military and veterans. In veterans there is a lot of cultural diversity with individuals ranging in backgrounds from all over including African-American‚ Asian-American‚ Hispanic-American‚ and Caucasian-Americans. Veterans suffer from a wide range of mental illnesses including depression‚ PTSD‚ anxiety‚ suicide‚ and substance abuse. PTSD
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families and drawn from eight different parts of the UK. The interviews lasted up to 3 to 6 hours in which were audio‚ transcribed‚ analyzed and subsequently published as a book “Growing up in Stepfamilies” (Barnes‚ 1999). Their analysis was committed to understand the lives of these particular families and how they survived. The preferred counseling for Ashley would be family therapy. This practice developed in the mid 1950’s‚ although the developmental part of family therapy founded much earlier
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Advocacy for the Homeless Amy Albertus August 17‚ 2011 BSHS 441 Barbra Czinger Advocacy for the Homeless What is advocacy? The classic definition from Webster’s Dictionary is simply “active support; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something “(Webster’s Dictionary‚ 2011). To make this definition more specific to advocacy in the Human Services field just a few details need to be added. A more specific‚ to this field‚ definition of advocacy would be: to help a particular population
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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary‚ the term advocacy is derived from the legal definition of advocate‚ which is defined as “a person who assists‚ defends‚ pleads‚ or prosecutes for another.” This legal definition is the springboard for the larger definition of nursing advocacy. Nursing advocacy has multiple roles such as communicating with‚ informing‚ and educating patients‚ protecting patients‚ speaking out for patients and building relationships (Hanks‚ 2013). It is common knowledge that
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To begin with‚ the field of social planning is broad and complex. However‚ social planning is an important tool that is concerned with improving the well-being in the community by devising and implementing policies and plans intended to meet the needs and problems of the community (Robinson & Davies 2013). Furthermore‚ Robinson & Davies (2013) notices that social planning is a process which comprises several elements‚ some of these includes social policy‚ social justice‚ politics and differing principles
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talents”. It helped children not sit around restless‚ but actually do something with their lives. “In 1965‚ congress established the Medicare and Medicaid programs”‚ said in Doc. 4. Medicare pays for hospital and nursing home services‚ but Medicaid is a health insurance financed by federal and state government. In Doc. 8 it states “Raegan’s plan was based on a theory called supply-side economics”. Which is a theory that means taxes have to be in have to be cut for there to be an increase in supply. All
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