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Advocacy: - ANSWER: the act of pleading for, supporting, or representing a cause or individual
- advocacy in nursing applies to any act in which the nurse is serving in the best interests of the
patient
Speaking up - ANSWER ensures that health needs are met and is an expectation within the scope of
professional nursing practice
What are highly valuable communication skills that are critical for effective pt advocacy? - ANSWER
ability to speak assertively, credibly, and authoritatively
Is the Patient Bill of Rights a type of advocacy - ANSWER yes
Self-determination: - ANSWER making up one's own mind regarding what to do or think without
regard to outside influence
- free will, independence
Social Justice: - ANSWER the principle that all persons are entitled to have their basic human needs
met, regardless of difference in economic status, class, gender, race ethnicity, citizenship, religion,
age, sexual orientation, disability, or health
- includes the eradication of poverty and illiteracy, the equality of sound environmental policy, and
equality of opportunity for healthy personal and social development
Altruism: - ANSWER the unselfish regard for others welfare
Valuing: - ANSWER to consider or rate highly, to prize or esteem, to appreciate. - -- Nurses must value
the patient's beliefs and concerns in order to be their advocate. This requires knowledge of the
patient's story.
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Aspiring: - ANSWER information, to tell, to educate
- in addition to knowing the pt's story, nurse needs to know what the pt knows
- fill in gaps
Interceding: - ANSWER to intervene in order to defend or help another person, speaking to someone
to assist another
- this is advocating
What is required to advocate for a pt? - ANSWER - effective communication skills
- full knowledge of pt
- knowledge of interrelated concepts
Caring: - ANSWER :a universal phenomenon that influences the way humans think, feel and behave in
relation to one another
Caring (specific to nursing): - ANSWER - nurse's empathy for connection with the pt
- ability to translate these effective characteristics into compassionate, sensitive, appropriate care
Theoretical views on Caring - ANSWER - universal phenomenon that influences the way we think, feel,
and behave
- Florence nightingale
- Patricia Brenner with Judith Wrubel's definition
Patricia Brenner and Judith Wrubel's definition of caring - ANSWER - the essence of excellent nursing
is caring
- caring means things matter to people
- caring determines what matters to a person
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- personal concern for another person, event, or thing that provides motivation and direction for
people to care for
Compassion: - ANSWER desire/motivation to help others that comes from the human response to
suffering of others, motivates people to go out of their way to help physical, spiritual, or emotional
hurts and pains of others
Caring Tough - ANSWER provides comfort
Contact Touch - ANSWER nonverbal communication that provides comfort and security
ex: holding hand, back rub
Noncontact touch - ANSWER eye contact
Protective touch - ANSWER used to protect pt
ex: prevent pt from falling
Task-oriented Touch - ANSWER used when performing a procedure or task
Comforting: - ANSWER acts toward another individual that displays both an emotional and physical
calm
Empathy: - ANSWER knowing, understanding, and accepting a person's feelings and the ability to
sense the person's private world
Ethics of Care - ANSWER - concerned with relationship between the pt and the nurse and the attitude
of each toward the other
- places the nurse as the pt's advocate who solves ethical dilemmas by creating a relationship
- listening: creates trust