Advocacy in Perioperative Nursing Practice

Schroeter, Kathryn

doi:10.1016/s0001-2092(06)61440-3

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“…Participants thought that advocacy roles were enhanced by the extent of nursing knowledge. While the importance of knowledge of patients 17,20,28 and clinical expertise 26 have been stressed in other works on advocacy, less attention has been given to the importance of knowledge of the environment. This is perhaps a result of perceptions that this type of nursing knowledge is not valuable.…”

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Bridging the Gap: a study of general nurses’ perceptions of patient advocacy in Ireland

O’Connor

Kelly

2005

Nurs Ethics

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Advocacy has become an accepted and integral attribute of nursing practice. Despite this adoption of advocacy, confusion remains about the precise nature of the concept and how it should be enacted in practice. The aim of this study was to investigate general nurses' perceptions of being patient advocates in Ireland and how they enact this role. These perceptions were compared with existing theory and research on advocacy in order to contribute to the knowledge base on the subject. An inductive, qualitative approach was used for this study. Three focus group interviews with a total of 20 practising nurses were conducted with a sample representing different grades in a general hospital setting. Data analysis was carried out using elements of Strauss and Corbins' approach to concept development. The findings indicate that the principal role of the nurse advocate is to act as an intermediary between the patient and the health care environment. The results highlight that advocacy did, however, result in nurses becoming involved in conflict and confrontation with others and that it could be detrimental to nurses both professionally and personally. It was also clear that when enacting advocacy, nurses distinguished between 'clinical advocacy' (acting directly for patients in the clinical environment) and organizational advocacy (acting on an organizational level for one or more patients).

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Bridging the Gap: a study of general nurses’ perceptions of patient advocacy in Ireland

O’Connor

Kelly

2005

Nurs Ethics

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“…This ethical principle is vital to the nurse-patient relationship and reveals a thought of reverence towards patients as human beings [1] and towards patients' rights [2, 3]. Indeed, patients' needs or desires are recognized as a key impulsion for advocacy in nursing [4]. …”

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“…These definitions emphasize the nurse's role as a faithful observer of the patient's circumstance [4, 14], signifying an ethical commitment to make certain quality of care [15]. …”

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Iranian Nurses’ Attitudes and Perception towards Patient Advocacy

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Patient advocacy is an inherent component of professional nursing ethics; in other words, nurses' enough knowledge would be essential to gain a positive attitude towards nursing advocacy. Using a descriptive-analytic design, this study aimed to assess the correlation between nurses' perception and attitudes towards patient advocacy, amongst 385 nurses in Kerman, Iran; hence, a three-part questionnaire was applied: part I, a demographic data sheet, part II, attitude measuring instrument, and part III, perception measuring instrument in nursing advocacy. The results implied that fairly positive attitudes and perception were found amongst the participants, and nurses' attitudes, in general, were positively correlated to their perception toward nursing advocacy. This means that with an improvement in perception, the attitude would also improve. In addition to our findings, it seems that these nurses needed more advocacy educational programs and support from responsible employers.

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“…La figura de la enfermera como "abogada o defensora del paciente" entiende de manera diferente la tarea de cuidar: proteger y defender los derechos del paciente; preparar al paciente física y psíquicamente para que se defienda de las agresiones potenciales de médicos y estructuras sanitarias 13 .…”

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Ética de enfermería y nuevos retos

Barrio

Molina

Sánchez

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Anales Sis San Navarra

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RESUMENLa profesión de enfermería ha concedido siempre una gran relevancia a las exigencias éticas vinculadas a su quehacer. Sin embargo, la forma de entender y dar contenido a este quehacer ha ido evolucionando a lo largo de la historia. Dos han sido los enfoques principalmente desarrollados para tematizar la ética de enfermería: la ética de la virtud y la ética de los principios. El primer acercamiento se pregunta por las actitudes que ha de poseer una persona para llegar a actuar como una buena enfermera. El segundo, recorre el camino inverso e indaga sobre las actuaciones y los principios que deben respetarse para ser una buena profesional.Una aproximación que armonice ambas perspectivas debería hacerse tres preguntas: ¿qué entendemos por cuidados de enfermería?, ¿en qué principios éticos se fundamenta esa forma de entender el cuidado?, ¿qué actitudes morales se relacionan con cuidar correctamente?En un modelo profesional moderno, la definición y el ejercicio del cuidado incluyen necesariamente la consideración del trabajo en equipo. De igual modo, el desempeño de una buena función cuidadora, y por lo tanto de una enfermería de calidad, precisa por un lado del aprendizaje teórico y práctico de los principios éti-cos en que se apoya la tarea de cuidar y, por otro, de la asimilación de las actitudes que son exigibles a la persona que cuida. Ambos elementos mejoran la capacidad de los profesionales para prevenir y resolver los conflictos éticos en la práctica asistencial.Palabras clave. Ética de enfermería. Principios de la bioética. Ética de la virtud. Trabajo en equipo. Cuidados de enfermería. ABSTRACTThe nursing profession has always placed great importance on the ethical requirements linked to its activities. However, the understanding and content to these activities has evolved over the course of history. Two approaches have been developed as the principal issues of nursing ethics: the ethics of virtue and the ethics of principles. The first approach enquires into the attitudes that must be held by a person in order to act as a good nurse. The second follows an inverse course and considers the actions and principles that must be respected in order to be a good professional.An approach that harmonises both perspectives must pose the following questions: What do we understand by nursing care? On what ethical principles is this form of understanding care based? What moral attitudes are related to caring correctly?In a modern professional model, the definition and exercise of care necessarily include consideration of team work. Similarly, carrying out a good caring function, that is to say quality nursing, requires apprenticeship on the one hand, and, on the other, the assimilation of the attitudes that are required in a person involved in caring. Both elements improve the capacity of the professionals to prevent and resolve ethical conflicts in the practice of care.

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Advocacy in Perioperative Nursing Practice

Cited by 28 publications

References 21 publications

Bridging the Gap: a study of general nurses’ perceptions of patient advocacy in Ireland

Bridging the Gap: a study of general nurses’ perceptions of patient advocacy in Ireland

Iranian Nurses’ Attitudes and Perception towards Patient Advocacy

Ética de enfermería y nuevos retos

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