Advocacy
Patient advocacy is a board area in health care with areas of concern with advocacy for carers, patients and survivors. A patient advocate can be an organization, or an individual who is concerned with different group of disorders. The meaning of patient advocacy and advocate can mean single advocates issuing services that companies can provide, and spread out to independent patients. Patient advocates can work for institutions and they are responsible for the care of the patient. Advocacy characteristics can be: awareness building, informed consent, patients’ rights, and patient representation, education of patients, survivors and their cares, support, confidentially, and matters of privacy.
Patient advocates like nurses, support …show more content…
Nurses have to be very careful when helping clients make health care choices and not to make health care choices for them or try to push their beliefs onto the clients when it comes to the choice the patient decides to make for their self. Nurses sometimes may need to intervene in some of the patient’s health care needs, if the plan of care isn’t going to be effective for the patient’s well-being. There are some situation that the nurse may need to advocate for the client or help them to advocate for their selves include: Access to health care, Informed consent, Protection of client privacy, end-of-life decisions, and substandard practice. All nurses are responsible for their own actions, even when they are working with a doctor and he/she gives orders to administer a client medication. It is the responsibility for the nurse to question any prescription that the doctors prescribes, if there is any chance the prescription could harm the patient “(incorrect dosage for a medication, potential adverse interaction with another prescribed medication, contraindication due to a client allergy of medical history) (www.atitesting.com,
Patient advocacy is a board area in health care with areas of concern with advocacy for carers, patients and survivors. A patient advocate can be an organization, or an individual who is concerned with different group of disorders. The meaning of patient advocacy and advocate can mean single advocates issuing services that companies can provide, and spread out to independent patients. Patient advocates can work for institutions and they are responsible for the care of the patient. Advocacy characteristics can be: awareness building, informed consent, patients’ rights, and patient representation, education of patients, survivors and their cares, support, confidentially, and matters of privacy.
Patient advocates like nurses, support …show more content…
Nurses have to be very careful when helping clients make health care choices and not to make health care choices for them or try to push their beliefs onto the clients when it comes to the choice the patient decides to make for their self. Nurses sometimes may need to intervene in some of the patient’s health care needs, if the plan of care isn’t going to be effective for the patient’s well-being. There are some situation that the nurse may need to advocate for the client or help them to advocate for their selves include: Access to health care, Informed consent, Protection of client privacy, end-of-life decisions, and substandard practice. All nurses are responsible for their own actions, even when they are working with a doctor and he/she gives orders to administer a client medication. It is the responsibility for the nurse to question any prescription that the doctors prescribes, if there is any chance the prescription could harm the patient “(incorrect dosage for a medication, potential adverse interaction with another prescribed medication, contraindication due to a client allergy of medical history) (www.atitesting.com,