Definitions
The act of or process of supporting a cause or proposal.
What is advocacy?
Her staunch devotion to human rights drove her advocacy for quality patient care, outcome-based interventions, respect for the relationship between the environment and the patient, and the role of education in preparing qualified women to provide patient care.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Proposed a theory of human advocacy and used the concept of “advocate” to describe the philosophical foundation and ideal of nursing
Who is Curtain?
Major reasons why nurses do not engage in advocacy.
What are powerlessness, fear of punishment, conflicts of interest, and lack of institutional support?
Involves the role of the profession in championing social, economic, legal, and environmental factors that influence the health of the population.
What is issues advocacy?
She advocated for the dignity and care of patients suffering from psychiatric illness and advocated for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Proposed a theory of existential advocacy that requires humans to be “authentic” or self-directed
Who is Gadow?
Can disrupt relationships in employment and policymaking settings.
What is advocacy?
The active engagement in the political process through activities such as voting, campaigning for candidates running for office, donating to a political action committee (PAC), and lobbying and educating elected officials about important issues.
What is political advocacy?
She recognized the need for children to have quality primary care and identified nurses as a resource to provide access to such care. Ford is responsible for developing the role of the nurse practitioner (NP) and advocating that nurses practice to the full extent of their education and licenses.
Who is Loretta Ford?
Their functional model of advocacy focuses on patient choice.
Who is Kohnke?
Likely the most important report on nursing in our time.
What is the Institute of Medicine Report?
Involves nurses championing issues that support the profession.
What is professional advocacy?
Has evolved over the years, from performing nursing functions adequately and safely to advocating for issues of social justice
What is the role of the nurse as an advocate?
Proposed a broader theory of nursing advocacy: advocacy for social justice.
Who is Fowler?
Can build a culture of advocacy, one in which nurses and all members of the health care team engage in routine advocacy for patients, nurses, the profession of nursing, and public policies that affect health.
Who are nursing executives?
The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
What is nursing?
Early in the history of the profession, nurses advocated that the best interests of patients were served by supporting the actions and decisions of whom?
Whom are physicians?
Built upon all of these theories and proposed a unified theory of advocacy with three basic tenets: “(a) safeguarding patients’ autonomy, (b) acting on behalf of patients, and (c) championing social justice in provision of health care”
Who are Bu and Jezewski?
As a predominantly female profession, _____ has never been considered powerful.
What is nursing?