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    Patient Advocacy: Concept Analysis Nursing is a challenging‚ rewarding and exciting career. The nurse ’s role is not limited to changing bandages‚ giving needles and offering support‚ as the past has indicated. The role of the modern nurse is one of advocate‚ caregiver‚ teacher‚ researcher‚ counselor‚ and case manager. The caregiver role includes those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client ’s dignity (Kozier‚ Erb‚ & Blais‚ 1997‚ p.129). In order

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    cancer treatment. (2013). National Cancer Institute. Curlin‚ F.‚ Lawrence‚ R.‚ Chin‚ M.‚ & Lantos‚ J. (2009). Religion‚ conscience‚ and controversial clinical practices Dubler‚ N. (1992). Individual advocacy as a governing principle. Journal of Case Management‚ 13‚ 82-86 Finn‚ T. (2013). Nurse advocacy helps improve patient outcomes‚ cuts readmissions — humanizes standardization efforts Ofri‚ D. (2013). The doctor will see your electronic medical record now. The Citizen ’s Guide to the Future

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    Developing a Health Advocacy ProgramThere are multiple population health issues that need to be addressed and obesity is one of them. Obesity impacts multiple people but the impact on children has grown. Obesity rates have been steadily rising in children. In 2010‚ 43 million preschool children were overweight or obese‚ a 60% increase since 1990. This is an obvious increase and shows no sign of stopping without efforts to combat this epidemic (Harvard School of Public Health‚ 2014). The purpose of

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    spend more than a twelve-hour shift with their patients‚ and understand what they want and need in order to be comfortable and recover. For that reason‚ nurses would not allow harm to come to them (Huber‚ 2015). My first experience with patient advocacy began with a pediatric patient. J.C. is a ten-year-old boy with cerebral palsy that was intubated to due harsh movements that caused him to have rhabdomyolysis. My preceptor has spent many days with him already

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    Introduction Clients often come into counseling with crises and want a solution to the problem. It is vital for the therapist during this time to be focused and goal oriented. To help a client in crisis mode it is important for the counselor to identify what needs to be focused on first‚ and help to break the problems into manageable ones. This paper will discuss the case vignette of Jamila. Jamila’s 9-year-old son recently was hit by a car and is in the hospital. This writer will address ways to

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    our careers. I believe that patient advocacy should never be just one person’s job. That is why I really wanted to explore this article and see how patient advocacy can be seen as a team sport. This article contributes to the knowledge we have learned about advocacy thus far in our course. We have learned that advocacy is not just an individual task and that it needs to be taken seriously by all staff members. This article also helps to show that health advocacy is an issue that is not only placed

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    are humans and should be treated accordingly. Getting to know a patient is important to ensure the best treatment possible. Receiving additional information from patients allow medical personnel to advocate for the patient’s best interest. Patient advocacy is important to make sure all patients are treated with respect and dignity. Patients should have a voice in every medical professional‚ they must know their wants and needs and execute them. Healthcare professionals should also protect interest

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    NURSING Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the

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    glance of reading the ANA code of ethics it seemed way beyond my “scope” of practice. I took a lot of time to read since it was kind of repetitive in a sense. I’m a new graduate to nursing field and without experience I don’t have ample nursing philosophy yet. I have worked as a hospice nurse now for 3 weeks‚ and have a nursing perspective of 3 weeks. It’s hard to imagine the code of ethics being realistic‚ 100% of the time. As nurses we are humans and not robots. The ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses

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    Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope

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