Individual patient advocacy, collective responsibility and activism within professional nursing associations
The systemic difficulties of health care in the USA have brought to light another issue in nurse—patient advocacy — those who require care yet have inadequate or non-existent access. Patient advocacy has focused on individual nurses who in turn advocate for individual patients, yet, while supporting...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Опубликовано: |
2010
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Nursing ethics
Год: 2010, Том: 17, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 247-254 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Health Care Reform
B patient advocacy B Activism B Collective Responsibility B professional associations |
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| Итог: | The systemic difficulties of health care in the USA have brought to light another issue in nurse—patient advocacy — those who require care yet have inadequate or non-existent access. Patient advocacy has focused on individual nurses who in turn advocate for individual patients, yet, while supporting individual patients is a worthy goal of patient advocacy, systemic problems cannot be adequately addressed in this way. The difficulties nurses face when advocating for patients is well documented in the nursing literature and I argue that, through collective advocacy, professional nursing associations ought to extend the reach of individual nurses in order to address systemic problems in health care institutions and bureaucracies. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-0989 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0969733009351949 |
